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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:57:45 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        KOJIMA Hajime <kjm@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:08.lynx 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000316115654.13688g-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <3709.953199941@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, 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.
> 

A better way to put it is - if the host you install from is malicious,
lynx is the least of the problems.

> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
> 
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