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On 9-Feb-04, at 6:12 PM, J Holder wrote: |
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>> could these md5's be used? maybe have portage make the files |
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>> immutable, |
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> and find some way to protect them from anyone but root, since if |
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> they've |
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> got root i doubt they would be going to all the trouble of doing that, |
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> unless they want to use your box as a hole for something else, maybe a |
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> way to keep those hashes on some type of removable media? usb flash |
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> devices and such anyone? maybe a floppy for just the binutils and such? |
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Tracking the MD5 sums that are stored wouldn't be very useful here. |
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They are for the source files only (and not the actual binaries that |
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would be replaced in the event of rooting). |
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Mark |
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