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Re: buildd hosts



On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:29:12AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > One more question...  How would anyone know that your machine hasn't/won't
> > be tampered with?
> 
> By making sure that
> - You don't allow people to do things they really shouldn't (as in "don't 
>   use SUID root to much", "make sure your permissions are set right")
> - All people that are logging in to your machine have accepted the
>   DMUP. This is not a guarantee, but at least you've got some agreement...
DMUP? What's that?

Yes, those look good, but how do we verify you?  When I asked the question
myself, I wondered why they'd trust me to do that...

Mike



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