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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 00:54:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060519005414.6d252ec3@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060519015329.0fdeef6a@c1358217.kevquinn.com>

On Fri, 19 May 2006 01:53:29 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn"
<kevquinn@gentoo.org> wrote:
| obviously header.txt and skel.* aren't important.  scripts isn't too
| important either, although a manifest-style file in there wouldn't be
| difficult.  licenses and metadata don't have any security impact so
| there's little point there, also.

metadata has security impact.

| do profiles present a security risk?  Perhaps by masking/unmasking
| fixed/vulnerable versions of packages.

Or by using a bashrc, perhaps? Profiles most definitely do have
security impact.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-19  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-18 21:45 [gentoo-dev] Signing everything, for fun and for profit Patrick Lauer
2006-05-18 23:53 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-05-18 23:54   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-05-19  4:26 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-05-20  2:03   ` Ned Ludd
2006-05-20 13:03     ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-20 13:21   ` Jan Kundrát
2006-05-20 20:47     ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-05-21 10:40       ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-05-19  9:46 ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 11:20   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-19 14:13     ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 14:39       ` Andrew Gaffney
2006-05-19 15:17         ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 15:26           ` John Myers
2006-05-19 16:10             ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 13:30               ` Thomas Cort
2006-05-20  6:30               ` Alin Nastac
2006-05-19 15:32           ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-05-19 15:35           ` Harald van Dijk
2006-05-19 15:26       ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-19 16:06         ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 16:50       ` Marius Mauch
2006-05-19 17:04         ` Harald van Dijk
2006-05-19 16:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter
2006-05-19 16:41   ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-19 16:51   ` Stephen Bennett
2006-05-19 17:26   ` Marius Mauch
2006-05-20  5:44     ` Lance Albertson
2006-05-19 17:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Marius Mauch
2006-05-20  8:13 ` Thierry Carrez
2006-05-20 13:10   ` Patrick Lauer
2006-05-20 10:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter
2006-05-20 14:37   ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-20 14:51     ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter
2006-05-21 11:31       ` Chris Bainbridge
2006-05-21 13:49         ` Francesco Riosa
2006-05-20 23:48   ` [gentoo-dev] " Robin H. Johnson

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