Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:05:22 -0500 From: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net> To: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net> Cc: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, klh@panix.com, FreeBSD ports list <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: klh10 and its port submissions Message-ID: <3C7277C2.8070805@surfbest.net> References: <3C6FC9EF.9040900@surfbest.net> <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> <200202180001.g1I01Og20036@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C726171.8050603@surfbest.net> <20020219152538.GB17665@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C727732.10003@surfbest.net>
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Ken Stailey wrote: > Alan Eldridge wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:30:09AM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote: >> >>> Alan E wrote: >>> >>>> On Sunday 17 February 2002 17:40, Ken Stailey wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ports have to do "pkg_delete" and "make uninstall." How can >>>>> cleanup be >>>>> done if the installation allows aribtrary files to be created after >>>>> "make install"? We really need to spend time thinking about all the >>>>> aspects. >>>>> >>>> It uninstalls what it installs. It's not responsible for >>>> uninstalling something that a *user* installed later. See >>>> graphics/mplayer's "install*user" >>>> script for a example of this in principle. >>> >>> Still does not deal with the administrative nightmare of >>> unprivledged users installing an ITS on an arbitrary IP address >>> which they cannot firewall. The dpimp setuid could be restricted to >>> group 'network'. >>> >> >> Suggest group "wheel" instead. IE you must be able to su to root (at >> least >> in principle) in order to run it. >> > But Alan: > > kstailey@hermes$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp > -r-sr-xr-- 1 root network 307808 Jan 26 08:14 /usr/sbin/ppp > > Oh never mind, but we will be able to use network someday after ID0 stuff works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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