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Article #1178Re: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX
From: Jordan Hayes
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 20:52
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1988 20:52
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Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca> writes: [ a bunch of (lazy) reasons for wanting "bin" to own binaries ] 1) if you can't trust your hackers with an account that has install privs on your machine, you can't trust what they are putting there. give them a tool to install things, or keep them out of your system source. 2) for NFS use rdist. 3) your third answer makes no sense. if you bnother at all to audit your binaries, you should do a thorough job, and not depend on file ownership as a sign of "tampering" ... 4) *why* does AT&T do it? I think my question stands. /jordan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!zodiac!zooks!jordan From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Installing 4.3-Tahoe on a VAX Message-ID: <5432@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 88 20:52:24 GMT References: <5415@zodiac.UUCP> <10477@ncc.Nexus.CA> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: jordan@ads.com (Jordan Hayes) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 20