On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially > compromise root access. > > I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose > the power of dselect by downloading all packages and package lists > individually, but I want to decrease the potential of root access being > compromised while running dselect | ftp. > > What's an intelligent solution?
Could you please explain why and how it could "compromise root access"? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
