FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet

[KIMURA Yasuhiro]

From: Jacques Vidrine <nectar at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:00:43 -0600

> > Due to multiple telnet versions (especially in FreeBSD 4) it was
> > judged that including more specific build instructions for all the
> > possible combinations of telnet and build options gave to high a risk
> > for errors possibly resulting in users not actually getting telnet
> > rebuild correctly.
> 
> That's right.  For 5.x, it is fairly straightforward:
> 
>     # cd /usr/src
>     # patch < /path/to/patch
>     # cd /usr/src/lib/libtelnet
>     # make obj && make depend && make
>     # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/telnet
>     # make obj && make depend && make && make install
> 
> But 4.x has no less than four possible telnet clients that might be 
> installed depending upon local settings of NOCRYPT, MAKE_KERBEROS4, 
> MAKE_KERBEROS5, and probably others :-/

Does it also get simple on 4.x if there is no /etc/make.conf?

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KIMURA Yasuhiro
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