Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 09:51:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: pending/2089 Message-ID: <199612140851.JAA23821@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612140325.LAA14176@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Dec 14, 96 11:25:09 am"
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > I think we should change the default send-pr so that either: > 1: it removes confidential submission support altogether and suggests > that if it's security related they should mail security-officer, or > 2: yells loudly at the user and makes sure that they understand that > marking something confidential prevents the bug-fixers from seeing it > and practically ensures that it will be ignored. 1) is fairly impractical in that it increases the load of our security-officers, since people often overestimate the degree of their problem. Only ``can get root by this in a second'' problems are probably worth to go this route. All others will be fixed much quicker by using a normal PR. 2) Good idea. Probably not too late to still make it into 2.2. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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