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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 (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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If there is smart conf-file updating inside pkg_preinst(), I think even |
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emerge -b could be unsafe. |
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Matthias |
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Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) |
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