On Wed, 2007-20-06 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there are many files out there that contain critical information about your > system ...
> however, there are certainly cases where the admin fully knows what they're > doing and they want to create a binary package of their system with these > sensitive files ... so where to meet in the middle. > any other potential ideas ? (pretend my idea here isnt the greatest thing > since Robot Chicken) I will claim that almost any file in /etc is potentially sensitive (even if it does not contain passwords, if may contain other informations interesting to a cracker). And even if we did what you propose, we'd run the risk of missing some and giving the user a false sense of security. Maybe we should document somewhere that the only way to make bin pkg that are safe for public distribution is to do emerge -b or -B .. And that pkgs built with quickpkg may contain sensitive information. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer
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