On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:36:28AM -0500, David Noel wrote: > > Indeed it is not. David's solution - which seems to amount to removing > > portsnap and herding the cats at home to DTRT about using svn securely - > > relies on other cats being as smart and aware of the ramifications as he > > is - a highly questionable proposition especially for the numerous more > > naive users that portsnap renders the process of securely upgrading the > > ports tree just about as simple and consistent as it can be. > > On the one hand I do get what you're saying. On the other I don't know > that you're fairly characterizing the typical portsnap user. Building > ports from source is not something I would think a novice FreeBSD user > would do (make can be--and often is--an absolute nightmare!). Rather, > I would imagine a novice would be using something like pkgng. When I was a novice FreeBSD user, lo these many many moons ago when the world was young and neckbearded Unix gods roamed the earth, I installed from source using the ports system. > > > > David, perhaps your obvious talent for auditing the portsnap code and > > its server-side configuration might be better applied to remedying any > > perceived vulnerabilities in conjunction with present and past security > > officers and teams? > > Thanks. I'm happy to, and it's on my to-do list, the only problem is > that I'm swamped with other projects and it's been sitting on that > list for the past 2 years. It seems to be a similar problem for Colin > and the Security Team. I'm hoping that by bringing this bug to the > list that someone with more free time will be able to patch it. Would you be willing to put the time into training up someone to do that work? I'm a bit of a fixer-upper, but I am willing and eager to contribute. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"