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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:05:22 -0500
From:      Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net>
To:        Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net>
Cc:        Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>, klh@panix.com, FreeBSD ports list <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: klh10 and its port submissions
Message-ID:  <3C7277C2.8070805@surfbest.net>
References:  <3C6FC9EF.9040900@surfbest.net> <3C703170.5040502@surfbest.net> <200202180001.g1I01Og20036@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C726171.8050603@surfbest.net> <20020219152538.GB17665@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C727732.10003@surfbest.net>

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Ken Stailey wrote:

> Alan Eldridge wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:30:09AM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote:
>>
>>> Alan E wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sunday 17 February 2002 17:40, Ken Stailey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ports have to do "pkg_delete" and "make uninstall." How can 
>>>>> cleanup be
>>>>> done if the installation allows aribtrary files to be created after
>>>>> "make install"?  We really need to spend time thinking about all the
>>>>> aspects.
>>>>>
>>>> It uninstalls what it installs. It's not responsible for 
>>>> uninstalling something that a *user* installed later. See 
>>>> graphics/mplayer's "install*user"
>>>> script for a example of this in principle.
>>>
>>> Still does not deal with the administrative nightmare of 
>>> unprivledged users installing an ITS on an arbitrary IP address 
>>> which they cannot firewall.  The dpimp setuid could be restricted to 
>>> group 'network'.
>>>
>>
>> Suggest group "wheel" instead. IE you must be able to su to root (at 
>> least
>> in principle) in order to run it.
>>
> But Alan:
>
> kstailey@hermes$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ppp
> -r-sr-xr--  1 root  network  307808 Jan 26 08:14 /usr/sbin/ppp
>
>
Oh never mind, but we will be able to use network someday after ID0 
stuff works.




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