On 5/12/23 10:16, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2023-05-12 09:53:15 -0700 (-0700), Jeffrey Chimene wrote: [...]Agreed. Actually, ossec itself has a debian package, so no ITP for me :). It made my work significantly easier since the regex package (pcre2) isn't part of the distro; the absence has a reason, but it's still an impediment that ossec itself has addressed with their .debI'm not sure that official Debian documentation, particularly security-focused documentation, should recommend that sysadmins install packages from third party archives. That'll be up to the maintainers of the documentation to decide, of course.
Agreed.
But beyond that...wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sudo bash[...] There's a bit of irony in suggesting that security-conscious sysadmins should download and run arbitrary scripts, much less with root privileges. `curl|sudo bash` has virtually become a meme unto itself these days.
Thank you for your concern. I certainly look at the script before execution. I think that suitable precautions can be written. I'm installing on several systems, so I like to have such command as a record. The example command comes from my notebook.
Thanks for your time! Cheers, jec