Re: [gentoo-server] phpBB masking-SOLVED

Re: [gentoo-server] phpBB masking-SOLVED

[widyachacra]

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Thank you for educating me..

On Nov 23, 2007 4:12 PM, Andrew Ross <aross@gentoo.org> wrote:

> widyachacra wrote:
>
> > The phpBB is still masked due to constant security bugs since 2005 Jun
> > 30. But its using for forums.gentoo.org <http://forums.gentoo.org>. I
> > tried to contact Mr.Aaron Walker ( ka0ttic@gentoo.org
> > <mailto:ka0ttic@gentoo.org>) regarding this matter but his email address
> > also not working.
>
> That's because he is retired, according to
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml?statusFilter=Retired
>
> I'm not entirely sure what the problem is that you're trying to report.

to ask the reason to mask it from 2005. I thought it as a mistak.


>
> If you want to use phpBB yourself, then you need to follow the
> instructions from "emerge phpBB" and see the MASKED PACKAGES section of
> the emerge man page. However, you must be prepared to accept that phpBB
> has a dubious security history and requires extra care and attention to
> prevent your server being compromised.
>
> If you look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/forums/index.xml#doc_chap4
> you'll see that the 3-man Forums Infrastructure Subproject is
> responsible for maintaining the MySQL database and the phpBB instance
> that powers forums.gentoo.org . The underlying server is presumably
> maintained and secured by the Infrastructure team
> (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/index.xml), which includes
> some of our most experienced developers.
>
>
> > paala# cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.
> > timestamp.chk  timestamp.x
> > wt1-doratupaala alias # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk
> > Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:30:01 +0000
>
> FYI, an easier way of doing this is:
>
> andrew@elm ~ $ emerge --info | fgrep Timestamp
> Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:46:01 +0000
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
>
>


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