From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 7: 8:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1453437B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9651143E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjr@comcast.net) Received: from pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (pcp01207467pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [68.48.13.246]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3P00LOTWLR6V@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:08:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from istari.comcast.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99E7tUj071603; Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:08:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:07:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. In-reply-to: <200210091354.g99Dsbhb012708@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: mark@grondar.za Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200210091408.g99E7tUj071603@pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Oct, Mark Murray wrote: >> This really doesn't matter to me (ports vice base). I was reacting to >> the "rot of the code" comments. I also don't have a (major) problem that >> this patch was never committed -- there are other more important things >> for the committers to work on. :-) > > "Rot" applies more to design, rather than implementation. These games > are _old_. They may be classics, and they may be fun, but there are > much more modern games in ports, that I dare say folks play much more > often. :-) > >> I would hope that if these are moved to ports, then (at least) these >> patches would be applied when the tarballs are created.... > > I have no problems with this. I'll also note (for completeness) that NetBSD just released a security advisory about rogue: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-021.txt.asc I briefly looked at this and the FreeBSD code appears to be the same. Of course, I'm not sure what getting a shell with a GID of games really gets you.... My point here, I guess, is that moving these games to ports probably lets us enhance the security of the base system.... Thanks, -- Stephen J. Roznowski (sjr@comcast.net) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message