On Sunday 04 March 2007 22:02:48 Jim Popovitch wrote: > > If so, why is it included by default? > > There are probably a host of reasons, I point the finger at the pack > maintainer leaning more towards the side of security than insecurity.
Forgive me for insisting. So, there *are* security issues related. Do you (or anyone else) know what they might be? I know debian's policy is to follow upstream if dd's can't reach a consensus (I remember reading in some lists' archives that this argument ended some polemic in some ssh(d)'s config options). However, I got the source of the same version (2.3.1-2) from sourceforge and it's clearly different, in that it only checks for some specific files in /proc, as oposed to everything. For information's sake, I paste them below. So I'm guessing dd's had a good reason for doing this, even though it's annoying. Am I missing something? Am I just hitting an old dead dog here? regards FF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
