Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 21 16:00:41 GMT 2005


On 2005-07-21 17:32, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On 2005.07.21 13:20:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> My thoughts exactly.  The only thing I'd like to add is that the port is
>> that importing it to the base system would probably require someone who
>> steps up and offers to maintain it as bugfixes/features are noticed in
>> the upstream source.  But, I guess, this is more or less obvious.
>
> Personally I have a preference for not having it in the base system
> for the simple reason that we would need to make security advisories
> for it... and while I don't remember any grave holes, there certainly
> have been a few holes over the last year.

True.  Thanks for the followup from the secteam's perspective :-)



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