Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/pf
To: Jim Wise <jwise@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/12/2005 14:42:55
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:34:18PM +0000, Jim Wise wrote:
>
> Module Name: src
> Committed By: jwise
> Date: Mon Apr 11 22:34:18 UTC 2005
>
> Modified Files:
> src/usr.sbin/pf/spamd: Makefile
> src/usr.sbin/pf/spamd-setup: Makefile
> src/usr.sbin/pf/spamdb: Makefile
>
> Log Message:
> Per discussion on tech-userlevel and tech-security, install `spamd',
> `spamd-setup', and `spamdb' as `pfspamd', `pfspamd-setup', and `pfspamdb'.
>
> To quote Steven M. Bellovin:
>
> This [having a program in basesrc with the same name as a widely used and
> completely different program in pkgsrc] is a seriously bad idea; it
> violates the rule of least surprise. That's bad enough in normal
> situations; here, we're talking about security. You do *not* want to
> confuse people about security features; they're hard enough to get right
> as is.
Please fix the man pages to refer to the correct names.
Perhaps a sed expression instead of the cp will do, but take care not
to change paths like /etc/spamd.conf.
Thomas