Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo_at_cyberleo.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:34:43 -0500
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On 08/24/2012 07:01 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Can anyone give me he details on the security related problem?

Off the top of my head, it seems to represent a break in the chain of
trust: how does the bootstrapper verify that the tarball it just
downloaded to bootstrap pkg is genuine, and not, for example, a
trojan? The source in usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c[1] doesn't seem to suggest it
cares.

[1]
http://git.cyberleo.net/?p=FreeBSD/releng/9.1.git;a=blob;f=usr.sbin/pkg/pkg.c;hb=b96b623d8debed8fa8fd7df5af01a350344549c9

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