:-\ 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 ;^) > >
