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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:19:51 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
To:        jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        jhay@icomtek.co.za (John Hay), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile
Message-ID:  <200008112019.e7BKJpP59373@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <8418.966024572@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 11, 2000 01:09:32 pm"

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> Perhaps it's time to add a make.conf variable like SECURE_SUID_ROOT
> (or something) and have *all* but the most essential suid binaries
> conditionalize their installation modes from its setting.  Turn it on
> or off by default, I don't really care, just make it easier to have
> things like suidperl without actually mucking with sources.

Then we will also need its equivalent in sysinstall so that you can
decide at install time what kind of setup you want. :-)

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za


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