* Justin Pryzby
| Have you given any thought to this bug? It seems like it would be
| easy and desirable to avoid running wget as root. Indeed, *two* of
| the outstanding RC bugs in the months leading up to the etch release
| were security problems with wget.
If so, I don't think I would want
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:54:44PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Justin Pryzby
| Have you given any thought to this bug? It seems like it would be
| easy and desirable to avoid running wget as root. Indeed, *two* of
| the outstanding RC bugs in the months leading up to the etch release
* Justin Pryzby
| I don't suppose md5sums are available? Does the file change
| sufficiently often such that its not reasonable to hardcode an MD5?
It doesn't change, and I have the hashes, so that might be a workable
approach.
| Ah, maybe this bug is moot anyway. I seem to recall a thread
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Justin Pryzby
| I don't suppose md5sums are available? Does the file change
| sufficiently often such that its not reasonable to hardcode an MD5?
It doesn't change, and I have the hashes, so that might be a workable
Have you given any thought to this bug? It seems like it would be
easy and desirable to avoid running wget as root. Indeed, *two* of
the outstanding RC bugs in the months leading up to the etch release
were security problems with wget.
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Clear skies,
Justin
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