Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:18:20 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: mph@pobox.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcp wrappers Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9901251817280.31680-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199901250157.RAA18135@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article <19990124151456.A218@wopr.caltech.edu>, > Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> 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." :-) That's a very good point - perhaps people will be a little bit less trusting now that this little incident has proven what could happen :) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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