From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jan 24 17:57:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25589 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25578 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA11196; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA18135; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com> To: mph@pobox.com Subject: Re: tcp wrappers Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.ports In-Reply-To: <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <19990125093009.55592@welearn.com.au> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu>, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:30:09AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > > A CERT advisory just came through which seems to require distifles to > > be collected from a safer location > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-01-Trojan-TCP-Wrappers.html > > That's why we record the MD5 checksum of the distfiles. That might help, except for a little cultural problem we have. Every time a checksum for some port comes up bad, somebody blindly commits the new checksum with a message that says "Checksum changed on master site." :-) John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message