On 5/12/23 10:16, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2023-05-12 09:53:15 -0700 (-0700), Jeffrey Chimene wrote:
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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 .deb
I'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
