Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:41:27 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey <beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca> To: Pekka Savola <Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selecting which programs to have in the base system Message-ID: <14421.19431.833872.458577@anarcat.dyndns.org> References: <3.0.6.32.19991212200222.00798800@netcore.home>
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--- Big Brother told Pekka Savola to write, at 20:02 of December 12: > Hello all, > > I posted this to freebsd-newbies (this seems like a newbie/faq question to > me) a day or two ago but got no answer. So let's try this list.. > > How can I manipulate -easily- which base system files (in e.g. /bin, > /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin) will be installed/compiled when I cvsup the > sources and make world ? I don't think that's a really good idea. It's not really 'made' that way. > The problem is, according to /var/log/setuid.today, I have ~70 files (some > of them just symbolic links though) which are setuid root (95% of them from > base system). Talk about security! I'd like to remove the ones I don't > need and never hear of them again (like ppp*, r*, yp*). Also, having stuff > like this along just takes some HDD space too. I couldn't care less of > having e.g. some games in my system. Well, I don't think these things take so much space... If you're talking serious about HDD space, your games will take a much bigger place than the, say, /usr/bin dir, that you won't even notice... (8622 Kb for my /usr/bin... that's not that big compare to my WarCraft install (22Mb! :)) > So, are there any utilities to keep track which base programs/sources are > installed and which are not - and how to keep them that way so that > upgrading the sources, 'make world', etc. won't mess those up? None that I know of. Would be nice to do though. Ready to code? :) > Btw, regarding setuid.today.. are there any good "master" references which > files in the base system really need to be +s ? I can't believe all ~70 > of them have to be... It's not a 'master' ref, but I built up a list of the suid files on FBSD and their use at: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~beaupran/FreeBSD/setugid.txt Tell me what you think of it! The AnarCat -- Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir Lofofora To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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