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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:34:14 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (KOJIMA Hajime)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:08.lynx
Message-ID:  <v0421010ab4f6cb1c9ee5@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
References:  <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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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?)


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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