Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 17:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2-way CTM? Message-ID: <199504060023.RAA10342@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504012105.NAA19694@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 01:05:17 pm
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> You know, it would be very very cool if Joe Developer sitting out on the > end of a SLIP line could make contributions via a sort of "reverse CTM". Yes. > to a submissions list. You should be able to do something like: > cd /usr/src/usr.bin/tip ctm_save tip.c foo.h bar.c > <hack hack> > ... The feature to enable this is planned, and somebody needs to do it. The ctm_save step is needed to grap a copy before hacking commences. > Also, back to CTM updates for a moment. I think these need to be > PGP'd, sequence numbered or simply obfuscated somehow before we go "live" > with CTM. It's just too easy to hose someone's tree and trojan-horse the > heck out of them by spoofing CTM the way it is now, and we have enough > security hole problems on the Internet without us making more of them. > Anyone want to work on this, too? I looked at the PGP issue, it's not quite trivial, but it can be done. > I think it's very safe to say that Poul-Henning is kind of out of the picture > on all of this due to impending Paternity, so if this stuff is going to get > done it's going to be because somebody _fresher_ steps into the breach! :-) > > Volunteers? No shoving.. :-) The rumours of my disconnection are quite exaggerated at this time... OK, to be specific, can I have somebody volounteer for these tasks: 1: Implement /etc/ctmcap in the ctm_rmail and ctm programs. 2: Make the <filename>#ctm feature. 3: Look into PGP signatures from cronjobs -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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