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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2001 22:10:18 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding "noschg" to ssh and friends
Message-ID:  <3B1480BA.3262FBA8@DougBarton.net>
References:  <15124.4635.887375.682204@onceler.kciLink.com>

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Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> Given some recent security issues with older versions of ssh, and that
> some attacks involve replacing the ssh binary on compromized systems
> to capture additional passwords, wouldn't it be prudent to mark the
> ssh related binaries as schg?  The rsh related ones already are so
> marked, and it just seems to follow to me that ssh related binaries
> should as well.
> 
> If I set the flags manually, will it barf on make installworld next
> time around or does installworld unset all schg flags before
> installing?

	It does not. As you've encountered, there will be no consensus on adding
schg to the default install of <foo>, so it's on you to adopt a suitable
local policy.

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