Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:48:06 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: wes@intele.net (Barnacle Wes) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ****HELP***** Message-ID: <199512081348.NAA07192@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199512062136.OAA16788@intele.net> from "Barnacle Wes" at Dec 6, 95 02:36:13 pm
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Barnacle Wes stands accused of saying:
> Since the new distributions come with the second "live" CD, it would be
> trivial to generate the database from the "live" CD, by starting off
> with a chroot("/cdrom") *after* opening your log file. This would give
> results as reliable as having the database pre-made on the CD.
You're not understanding. The list and the checking binary must _both_ be
on the CD, to avoid the possibility of compromise. The two must also be
available by FTP to people that don't have the CDs, from a reliable source.
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