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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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