From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 8:28:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BF1714F4C for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22482; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:28:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA20046; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:27:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: sobomax@altavista.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:11:08 +0300." <3725D38C.2153F5B8@altavista.net> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:27:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20044.925226872@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3725D38C.2153F5B8@altavista.net>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >Does anybody can explain why md5 located in /sbin directory? As far as I >know in /sbin only program which intended for super-user (like mount(8)) >or have some features only for super-user (like ping(8)) are located. It's there so that you have it if you're trying to figure out what binaries an intruder has messed with. This may be a bad argument. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message