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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:58:50 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/arts Makefile
Message-ID:  <200403050058.54374.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040304230002.GD19335@lum.celabo.org>
References:  <200402072116.i17LGmkA007339@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040303163111.L55861@volatile.chemikals.org> <20040304230002.GD19335@lum.celabo.org>

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On Friday 05 March 2004 00:00, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:34:11PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> > IMO any port that wishes to install a suid binary by default should be
> > required to get approval from the FreeBSD Security Team, and their
> > decisions, not the port maintainers, be final in cases where it is
> > optional.

The problem with that approach is that you cannot really trust a "security=
=20
team" more than a port maintainer (or a port maintainer team). A member of=
=20
the security team might be more competent than the port maintainer in some=
=20
instances, in other instances it might be the other way around. Although I=
=20
have been told before that I just don't understand security, I believe you=
=20
can't achieve security by trusting in name tags.

> > This in addition to any prominent warnings about suid binaries=20
> > deemed necessary.

Every port that installs binaries already warns you about them, automatical=
ly, =20
and the daily security run from periodic scans for new setuid binaries as=20
well.

> I will be very happy to
> see what Michael comes up with for artswrappers, and for myself I intend
> to investigate various X11-related bits that were brought up previously.

Artswrapper will be similar to x11/wrapper.

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