Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:41:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> To: "Thordur Ivar B." <thib@mi.is> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chfn, date, chsh INFECTED according to chkrootkit Message-ID: <20040818123706.T887@acropolis.argolis.org> In-Reply-To: <20040818162355.08596948.thib@mi.is> References: <20040818121102.95460.qmail@web52402.mail.yahoo.com> <20040818142511.390043af.thib@mi.is> <20040818144948.GA55534@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040818162355.08596948.thib@mi.is>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Thordur Ivar B. wrote: > Yes ofcourse you will need to trust your own toolchain and compiler (I keep > "trusted" binarys on CD to use in cases like this. (And for post-mortem > inspection.) I'm curious, where do the "trusted" binaries come from? In theory, the FreeBSD build machine could have been hacked a long time ago and the hack keeps propagating. -- Matt Piechota
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