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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:05:45 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Installing XFree86 package via sysinstall: need X wrapper or not?
Message-ID:  <20020622200545.GS76002@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzp4rfv3bbb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20020621135806Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020621134520.G68827@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020621223209.GP76002@squall.waterspout.com> <xzp4rfv3bbb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:35:52AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Yes, there is: it's a setuid binary.  It shouldn't be installed unless
> it's needed.

I don't think sacrificing POLA for security is going to help
anything in *this* particular case.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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