:-\ ah yes-- that would be true -- thnx for the correction. t

On Dec 20, 2007 12:00 PM, Phil Ehrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > ted morris wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi Gunnar,
> > >
> > >you build things as *root user under Linux, using a terminal shell* --
> > You surely do *NOT* build things as _root_! You build things as normal
> > user, and install them as root (i.e. only the make install step).
>
> ... Because it is trivially easy to hide a trojan in a configure script.
> In fact, the only trojans for Linux that I have seen in the wild were
> in configure scripts. There could just as easily be a mistake coded into
> a configure script that rm's your filesystem, but I have never seen such
> a mistake - probably because the person who made the mistake rm'ed their
> filesystem just a moment after making the mistake ;^)
>
>

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