Bug#56821: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr>
- Cc: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, quinot@infres.enst.fr, Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, "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: 03 Feb 2000 10:16:59 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87og9yuupw.fsf@erwin.complete.org>
- Reply-to: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 56821@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: Pierre Beyssac's message of "Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:16:49 +0100"
- References: <[🔎] 87vh47i28b.fsf@erwin.complete.org> <[🔎] 200002030030.SAA00851@cafe.onshore.com> <[🔎] 20000203111649.S50448@enst.fr>
I just want to make sure: this will not install a new MBR without
first prompting, right? (I don't have a machine to test the disks
on). If it does, it is bad because it can mess up other OSs. You
need to ask the user before you install anything on MBR.
-- John
Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:30:15PM -0600, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > So ... um.... what we've ended up doing, which I'm not sure is the
> > right thing, is to inhibit the prompt entirely unless there's an
> > error.
>
> Thanks, Adam. This sounds a very reasonnable fix to me.
> --
> Pierre Beyssac pb@enst.fr
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