Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:08:44 -0700 From: Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a file(1) minor POLA stretching Message-ID: <p05100310b795de86ade6@[207.76.207.129]> In-Reply-To: <50248.997206252@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <50248.997206252@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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At 7:44 PM +0200 8/7/01, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 10:23:01 MST, Mark Peek wrote: > >> Is this "binary" format portable? At first glance I think your >> patch would break cross compilation. Here's a patch that should fix >> this by building the database at install time instead of during the >> compilation phase. > >I'm surprised Christos hasn't gone for the "first use" approach on this >one. Hmmm, I could think of a couple problems with that...it would need to be the first use by root (or a uid with permission to write to that directory) and you'd have to ensure a writeable filesystem. It's probably best to do it once at installation time and get it over with. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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