Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
- Cc: quinot@infres.enst.fr, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, 56821@bugs.debian.org, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
- Date: 02 Feb 2000 12:22:05 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87hffrh3ci.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
- Reply-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: Pierre Beyssac's message of "Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:14:14 +0100"
- References: <[🔎] 2000-02-02-11-38-12+trackit+sam@debian.org> <[🔎] 87vh47k3v1.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202170309.A29101@lantier.enst.fr> <[🔎] 87bt5zy3sp.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202185949.A593@lantier.enst.fr> <[🔎] 87u2jrh3tg.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 20000202191414.O50448@enst.fr>
As I said before, LILO does NOT do the same thing. You might gather
the same knowledge by reading the documentation for the programs
yourself.
-- John
Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:11:55PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > You can only fit so much on the install disks. We cannot put a copy
> > of Practical Unix Security on there. Put a help button there if you
> > want, but really, you are taking this way overboard.
>
> Since I certainly can't question your good faith, may I point out
> that install-mbr should be removed from the install disks as a
> logical step, since Lilo fits the same bill much more nicely?
>
> Thank you, you made my point again.
> --
> Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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