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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:15:20 +0200 |
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Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2007, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > I will claim that almost any file in /etc is potentially sensitive |
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> > (even if it does not contain passwords, if may contain other |
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> > informations interesting to a cracker). And even if we did what you |
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> > propose, we'd run the risk of missing some and giving the user a |
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> > false sense of security. |
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> > |
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> > Maybe we should document somewhere that the only way to make bin pkg |
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> > that are safe for public distribution is to do emerge -b or -B .. |
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> > And that pkgs built with quickpkg may contain sensitive information. |
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> If there is smart conf-file updating inside pkg_preinst(), I think |
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> even emerge -b could be unsafe. |
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preinst is run after building the tbz2 package. |
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Marius |
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Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> |
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