From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 11 11:29:49 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D2D37B839; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:29:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1016) id EC4389B05; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:29:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF6EBA11; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:29:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:29:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: cdf.lists@pawn.primelocation.net To: Christopher Masto Cc: Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile In-Reply-To: <20000811141800.A14610@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:59:54PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > imp 2000/08/10 15:59:54 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile > > Log: > > Don't build suidperl by default. Make users specifically enable its > > building. > > Umm.. isn't that a bit of a radical change? Any reason for it? > Any reason against it? Given the security hole found under Linux and potential problems of Yet Another Suid Binary, it seems a good idea. Also, see the recent discussions on FreeBSD-security. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message