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Date:      Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:30:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.1.7 binaries and 2.1.5 system (fwd)
Message-ID:  <m0vtP1x-0000rTC@twwells.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702090200.SAA05603@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Feb 8, 97 06:00:10 pm

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>    There are no incompatibilites like this that I know of. You should have no
> trouble with a mix of 2.1.5, 2.1.6, and 2.1.7 executables...although you
> _should_ upgrade all of system binaries to 2.1.7 as there will be many other
> potential security holes fixed in the release, too.

Yeah, I know. :-) But I've got too many simultaneous crises going
on right now. And my "system" stuff isn't precisely stock, so it's
not a matter of just plopping in a new /bin, etc. What I'm going
to do is drop in replacements for the things that users can call
that will cause problems with system-level security. That's
something I can do in an hour or so, instead of the N hour upgrade
process I otherwise would have to go through. Once the rest of the
messes are dealt with, I'll do a proper upgrade....



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