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Date:      Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:46:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9809122041230.18209-100000@redfish>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980912200252.21513B-100000@roble.com>

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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Roger Marquis wrote:

> Secondly, while port A installs under /usr/<newdir>, port B installs to
> /usr/local/etc and port C in /usr/libexec, ...  You can never be sure

Erm... any port that does so (with rare exceptions) is broken and should
be fixed.

> There's also no way to validate all of the source hosts listed in the
> Makefile.  We've downloaded hacked versions of a port and had to
> redownload and recompile when the hack became obvious (through corrupt
> syslogs and attempts to grab /pwd.db).

I don't understand what you mean.  What do you want to validate about the
source host?  That they exist?  There is already a md5 in the port of the
distribution tarball...


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