Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:27:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: asami@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199609201327.XAA17325@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>might not have /sbin in $PATH. md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful
>>for checking security before mounting /usr. I don't like having absolute
>>paths anywhere in the build.
>
>And because we don't want it to be compromised by a bogus shared library.
No, the `s' in `sbin' stands for `system', not for `static'. md5 could be
linked static wherever it is installed. My md5 is linked shared anyway:
md5:
-lc.3 => /lib/libc.so.3.0 (0x801b000)
and libc is slightly harder to compromise than md5:
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin schg 401142 Sep 20 16:02 /lib/libc.so.3.0
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin - 12288 Jul 30 03:34 /sbin/md5
^^^^
Bruce
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