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On Wed, 2007-20-06 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> there are many files out there that contain critical information about your |
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> system ... |
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> however, there are certainly cases where the admin fully knows what they're |
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> doing and they want to create a binary package of their system with these |
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> sensitive files ... so where to meet in the middle. |
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> any other potential ideas ? (pretend my idea here isnt the greatest thing |
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> since Robot Chicken) |
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I will claim that almost any file in /etc is potentially sensitive (even |
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if it does not contain passwords, if may contain other informations |
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interesting to a cracker). And even if we did what you propose, we'd run |
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the risk of missing some and giving the user a false sense of security. |
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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 .. And |
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that pkgs built with quickpkg may contain sensitive information. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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