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Date:      13 Jul 2000 11:21:10 -0700
From:      asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed ldconfig change vs. ports
Message-ID:  <vqc1z0x99ih.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:36:50 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <XFMail.000713083650.jdp@polstra.com>

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 * From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>

 * A submitter has sent me a patch for ldconfig which makes it complain
 * and ignore directories which aren't owned by root, or which are
 * world-writable.  I think it is a good patch from a security
 * standpoint, since if somebody can replace your shared libraries they
 * can easily get root and do anything they want.  So I would like to
 * commit this change.
 * 
 * But I am a little bit worried that it might break some ports.  Do
 * any of you know of ports which install shared libraries into
 * directories not owned by root?  Would it be reasonable to consider
 * cases of that to be bugs in the ports themselves?

I think those are bugs and the ldconfig change might help us find
them!

Satoshi


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