From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 16 1:58:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1510137BF28 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA62348; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:57:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:57:45 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: KOJIMA Hajime , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:08.lynx In-Reply-To: <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:30:19 +0900, KOJIMA Hajime wrote: > > > But, /stand/sysinstall still use lynx as default text browser. > > If you want to read HTML documents in sysinstall, /stand/sysinstall > > will go to install lynx package automatically (and it will fail in > > 4.0-RELEASE). > > I don't think this is a problem, since any host from which it is likely > to read documentation is quite unlikely to be malicious. > A better way to put it is - if the host you install from is malicious, lynx is the least of the problems. > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message