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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:44:55 +0100 (BST)
From:      Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port Collection (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007280944280.4525-100000@merlin.onsea.com>

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Sorry if this is duplicated, just wondering if you knew.

Cliff Rowley

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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:22:05 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Reply-To: mgetty@muc.de
To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, mgetty@muc.de
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port Collection

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:27:22PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> FYI, this is the status of the mgetty port in the FreeBSD port collection:
> 
> FORBIDDEN=      "Insecure tempfile handling: can overwrite any file on the 
> system"

The FreeBSD port has always been broken...

... and they have never informed me of *anything*.

I could imagine problems in some of the programs (there shouldn't, but
then, with all the sample scripts, there are *so* many that it's hard to
say without going through all of them).

Faxspool has one minor thing (if called with "faxspool -" - read from
stdin - it will create a file in /tmp unsafely, but then, just don't do
this, then).

The sample configuration ships with 

mgetty.cfg.in:#  statistics-file /tmp/statistics.2864

- that would be unsafe, but it's disabled anyway per default.


Well... I will change faxspool, and change the default config sample.  

But it still would have been nice to get a notification from the FreeBSD 
folks.  *sigh*

gert
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