Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-07 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/12/20 04:24, Dale wrote: >> I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll >> be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through >> a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power >> company. Anyway, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/12/20 04:24, Dale wrote: > I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll > be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through > a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power > company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-06 Thread Dale
antlists wrote: > On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: >> Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet >> service.  It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is >> over 100 times faster than my current DSL.  It only costs $4.00 a month >> more than what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-05 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/4/20 12:02 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> So basically, that package would have to start over from scratch to be >> fixed.  That's not very likely if history means anything. >> > > I think the opentmpfiles devs are planning to copy/paste the > systemd-tmpfiles C code into

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/4/20 12:02 PM, Dale wrote: So basically, that package would have to start over from scratch to be fixed.  That's not very likely if history means anything. I think the opentmpfiles devs are planning to copy/paste the systemd-tmpfiles C code into opentmpfiles eventually. That will make

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/4/20 1:44 AM, Dale wrote: >> >> Will opentmpfiles be fixed at some point or is it true that it can't be >> fixed?  On -dev, I think I read where one person said it can't be >> fixed.  In that case, switching is likely a good idea since the insecure >> package can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/4/20 1:44 AM, Dale wrote: Will opentmpfiles be fixed at some point or is it true that it can't be fixed?  On -dev, I think I read where one person said it can't be fixed.  In that case, switching is likely a good idea since the insecure package can't be fixed. The answer is a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/4/20 5:47 AM, Michael wrote: If sys-apps/opentmpfiles is installed on openrc profiles, will this be depracated and replaced with sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles, or is this something we should do manually ourselves? Only the default is being changed for now, so you should swap them yourself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/4/20 3:55 AM, tastytea wrote: From what I could gather, opentmpfiles is only vulnerable when an attacker is able to put a config file into /etc/tmpfiles.d/, so they have to be already root. The exploit does require an entry in /etc/tmpfiles.d, but many packages install perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 4 December 2020 02:18:49 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/3/20 8:40 PM, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. > > There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for > > security reasons. I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 4 December 2020 09:09:36 GMT antlists wrote: > On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: > > Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet > > service. It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is > > over 100 times faster than my current DSL. It only

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread Dale
antlists wrote: > On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: >> Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet >> service.  It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is >> over 100 times faster than my current DSL.  It only costs $4.00 a month >> more than what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread antlists
On 04/12/2020 01:40, Dale wrote: Also, our local power company is about to start rolling out internet service.  It's done with fiber and the slowest package, 200MBs/sec, is over 100 times faster than my current DSL.  It only costs $4.00 a month more than what I'm paying now.  Their fastest

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-04 Thread tastytea
On 2020-12-03 19:40-0600 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner.  > There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for > security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed. > I guess that is the default for

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Dale
Kusoneko wrote: > On December 4, 2020 1:40:57 AM UTC, Dale wrote: > > Highly doubt OS matters at all for ISPs. Internet service is standardized you > could say, at least at the end points where a device connects to a home > network or to the ISP, so there's no reason why a Linux-based OS

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/3/20 8:40 PM, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. >> There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for >> security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed.  I >> guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/3/20 9:18 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: There's a full explanation here: http://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2017-18925.xhtml Just kidding, there were actually two: http://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2017-18188.xhtml

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/3/20 8:40 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner. There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed.  I guess that is the default for openrc.  Someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Kusoneko
On December 4, 2020 1:40:57 AM UTC, Dale wrote: >Howdy, > >I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner.  >There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for >security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed.  I >guess that is the default

[gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-03 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've mentioned I follow -dev to see what is coming around the corner.  There is a thread on there about switching tmpfiles packages for security reasons.  I currently have sys-apps/opentmpfiles installed.  I guess that is the default for openrc.  Someone mentioned systemd-tmpfiles as a