Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:06:02 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu>, Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, jwyatt@rwsystems.net, glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <199910191506.IAA12249@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:36:16 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910190834500.13893-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910190834500.13893-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com>,
Matt
Behrens writes:
> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>
> : On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 02:06:32PM -0400, a little birdie told me
> : that Matt Behrens remarked
> : >
> : > That would probably do pretty well for the initial install, but it
> : > unfortunately doesn't address the problem of how to stop make world
> : > from happily replacing all of the newly-missing components.
> :
> : This is why I stick non-stock things in /usr/local.
>
> Yes, but we're referring to now-"stock" things that will, for one
> reason or another, end up totally nonexistent on the system. For
> example, a system without any UUCP stuff would suddenly become a
> system *with* UUCP stuff after make world.
A previous posting of mine conveyed the idea of variables like
NOUUCP=true, NOSENDMAIL, NONAMED, NOYP, SUID_BINARIES_root='/usr/bin/su
...' etc., in make.conf. Wouldn't this work?
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
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