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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Peter Simons wrote: |
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> Ed Grimm writes: |
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>> So how is it that having the Manifest files all signed, |
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>> and having the Manifest signatures checked, and checking |
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>> all the MD5 sums in the Manifest files against the files |
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>> in the directories only a partial answer? |
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> /usr/portage/eclass is not authenticated by this and |
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> contains shell code that's (possibly) executed with |
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> superuser privileges. |
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Would the obvious fix not be provide signed Manifest files for the |
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eclasses as well? |
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Ed |
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