Re: root access and dselect | ftp
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It occurred to me that running dselect | ftp as root could potentially
> compromise root access.
>
> I don't want users to be able to run dselect, and I don't want to loose
> the power of dselect by downloading all packages and package lists
> individually, but I want to decrease the potential of root access being
> compromised while running dselect | ftp.
>
> What's an intelligent solution?
Could you please explain why and how it could "compromise root access"?
Remco
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