Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:34:14 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (KOJIMA Hajime) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:08.lynx Message-ID: <v0421010ab4f6cb1c9ee5@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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At 11:45 AM +0200 3/16/00, 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. I would think it's a problem if sysinstall expects to use lynx, it thus goes to install lynx, and that installation *FAILS*. If I'm reading that right, you're then left with sysinstall trying to use a package that does not exist. (true?) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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