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From: bugs@news.win.net (Mark Hittinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ANNEX-3 s/w precomp for FreeBSD is avail.
Date: 24 May 1995 16:04:16 -0400
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peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) writes:
>The whole point of the Annex 3 software is that it's really nice because
>you can specify policy (read: security) via source code instead of run-time
>configuration options.

yes!

>Therefore, installing precompiled Annex 3 software is both stupid
>and dangerous.  Don't do it.

On the other hand it was a slight pain to get it to compile.  The guy
should have posted his changes to make it compile.

Ideally it would be nice to see xylogics pick this up and support it.
We use the hell out of it.

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
bugs@win.net
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