Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:59:01 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp wrappers Message-ID: <19990124175901.A2688@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:57:07PM -0800 References: <19990125093009.55592@welearn.com.au> <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu> <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 05:57:07PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > 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." :-) Granted, and also there's the problem that lots of people are more than willing to shoot themselves by ignoring the MD5 without really investigating. The good news is that in this particular case, it doesn't look like files/md5 was updated to that of the trojan. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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