Re: Putting OPIE to rest (was: Re: cant login after make installworld: pam_opie.so.6 not found)

2023-01-05 Thread grarpamp
On 1/5/23, Graham Perrin wrote: > I recall the original email Orthagonal as it, and some notes since neither consider any potential gap issue or/of any perhaps whimful removal process, nor moves forward on any of potential better alternatives to that which were hint (port) a bit in posts even bef

Re: Can security/ca_root_nss be retired?

2023-01-20 Thread grarpamp
> /usr/share/certs Was never necessary. Should not have been added. >> trust store > list of trusted CAs People are fools if they think they can "trust" any of those. Including a live cert store in base does little but endorse exposure of users to such external risks. Users before at least had t

Running Apps As Root Considered Unwise [re: # amule, distributed apps]

2023-02-08 Thread grarpamp
On 2/8/23, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # amule Users should probably not be running random applications that they downloaded from the untrustable internet as root. Far too many exploits/bugs have happened that way around world. Use a VM or disposable, or remap IP po

pkg-static broken static compile

2023-02-12 Thread grarpamp
Something broke such that the "pkg-static" binary included in the "All" package dirs and in the "Latest" meta bootstrap dirs is dynamic instead of properly static. https://pkg.freebsd.org/