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Re: Central register of package use

On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> Also, when the mail is sent to selections, it should not be made available
> to the public in such a way that someone can determine which packages are
> running on someone's system.  I think that could be a major security hole
> because "hackers" could just scan the listing for someone who has a
> vulnerable version of sendmail installed, for example.  I think we also
> have the same issue in regards to people running dwww on open web servers.

A very good point. In fact, anyone with a web server that supports the
debian web standard and exports /usr/doc to the world via httpd has this
problem right now. I suggest the following addition to webstandard 3.0:


 2. Access to html documents
  
 Html documents for a package are stored in /usr/doc/<package> and can be
 referred to as
 
 http://localhost/doc/<package>/<filename>
 
+By default, http://localhost/doc/ should only be accessable from
+localhost, so crackers cannot read this directory to and find out the  
+versions of all packages installed on the system.

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi_______Syntax:_sig.pl_<location-of-netscape-program>_______
BEGIN{if(!$ARGV[0]){$^I=~y/_/ /;print"$^I\n";exit}$^I='.bak'}#       Joey Hess
s/\bnoframes\b/noFrames/g;s/\bframeset\b/frameSet/g#          joey@kite.ml.org
#Remove frames from Netscape forever! <http://kite.ml.org/~joey/framefree.cgi>


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