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On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:47, David Olsen wrote: |
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> The point was traceroute is _not_ installed by default. An admin desiring to |
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> install this software, in my case, on several hundred servers, I don't want |
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> to have to chmod traceroute on all those boxes, everytime there's an update |
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> to traceoute because of what could be deemed a poor choice for security. |
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> I don't see where the discussion has gotten moot or off-track. If enough of |
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> the community wants it back the way it was, I assume Gentoo developers will |
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> respond as such. |
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If you want something exploitable or otherwise insecure to be installed |
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on several hundred servers, then make your changes to a portage overlay |
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tree that is either shared out to all your systems, or make the changes |
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on an rsync server that you maintain yourself. Those of us that prefer |
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for everything to be installed reasonably secure out-of-the-box and |
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insecure configurations to require manual effort - are quite happy to |
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see things being taken care of just as they are now. |
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Scott Taylor - <scott@××××××××××××××××.net> |
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"I am not convinced that they can write solid stable software. Proprietary software is already hobbled by it's secretive cathedral nature, but Microsoft seems to have a corner on incompetent programming as well." |
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-- Chris DiBona from the introduction. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) |