If I installed helix gnome in this way, and have since put the helix stuff in my sources file and have been getting updates from them, is there something else I should do to right it? I've noticed that task-helix-gnome is always held back and never updated.
Anderson, Tim TL33E said these things on 20001107.1430: | Yes, exactly. The point is that it's not a good idea to blindly run a | script as root - who knows what it could do? Not suggesting that the | helixcode people are going to deliberately screw your system up, but it | could be intercepted or cracked somehow. Look at 'horrifying suggestion' | from last week, I think there's a description of what the script does in | there as well. | Has anyone talked to the helix people about this, why are they advocating | such a thing when Debian has such a good packaging system? | | tim | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Johann Spies [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:23 AM | > To: Debian | > Subject: Re: HELIX and potato | > | > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 09:19:40PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: | > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:47:56AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: | > > > lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh | > > | > > we have been through this before, don't EVER run anything like that. | > > | > Excuse my ignorance, but after reading lynx's man page, I still do not | > understand what is actually happening in a command like this or let me | > put it this way: I do not understand how it can help to install | > helix-gnome or why it has to be run as root. As I understand it | > lynx is passing the html-source from go-gnome.org to bash. Why would | > one like to do it and why is it a security risk? Is it because it is | > run as root? | > | > Johann. | > -- | > J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336 / 023 55 11 568 | > "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and | > the life; he that believeth in me, though he were | > dead, yet shall he live." John 11:25 | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
