Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:59:14 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (KOJIMA Hajime), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:08.lynx Message-ID: <4195.953229554@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:34:14 EST." <v0421010ab4f6cb1c9ee5@[128.113.24.47]>
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The installation does not fail if lynx is missing. > At 11:45 AM +0200 3/16/00, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:30:19 +0900, KOJIMA Hajime wrote: > > > > > But, /stand/sysinstall still use lynx as default text browser. > > > If you want to read HTML documents in sysinstall, /stand/sysinstall > > > will go to install lynx package automatically (and it will fail in > > > 4.0-RELEASE). > > > >I don't think this is a problem, since any host from which it is likely > >to read documentation is quite unlikely to be malicious. > > I would think it's a problem if sysinstall expects to use lynx, > it thus goes to install lynx, and that installation *FAILS*. If > I'm reading that right, you're then left with sysinstall trying > to use a package that does not exist. > > (true?) > > > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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