Re: su and root not the same??

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 31 Jul 00, at 16:28, John Aldrich wrote:

> Seeing as to how I'm just a user who barely knows how to compile a
> program from a tarball, I just have to trust that whatever I'm
> getting from FreshMeat and Linuxberg, etc are "safe" (i.e. not
> trojans) programs. :-)

You know, it *is* possible to verify RedHat RPMs (with the pgp 
option) but I don't think there's anything you can do with tarfiles 
except check the makefile after you configure, and browse the 
source a little.  "The source Luke, use the source <shoosh-eesh>"

Steve


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