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[David Bierce]

There was an official setup document for an Evolution plugin in the  
Red Hat 5 days that wanted me to execute, as root:

curl ftp://something.interesting.com/~someguy/somedirectory/ 
plugin_installer.sh | /bin/sh


Of course being young and having used linux for all of 2 hours, I did  
exactly what it said, and I was checking my email like nobodies  
business without so much as a confirmation , let alone an annoying  
EULA.  If only every install was so easy.


Shell script with binary does sound familiar *cough* Java * cough*  
EnterpriseDB *cough* Dell Firmware




On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote:

>
> On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, David Bierce <david at bierce.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> I did it at about 7AM today and got it instantly...and the  
>>>> download went as
>>>> fast as my 1.2Mbps pipe would take it.
>>>
>>> I got on at 6:30 or so this morning.  I got a serial, and I  
>>> downloaded
>>> the shell script installer.  But it says I can't use it until I
>>> register on the site.  Is that not correct?
>>
>> Good lord!  That is obscene!  This shell script *does* contain  
>> binary.
>> Aren't there decency laws against that?
>
>
>
> It's nice to know that some companies understand me -- as a linux  
> user I'd much rather just enter my root password and let a  
> downloaded shell script do whatever it wants. It's too much work to  
> understand what it's trying to do and grant it appropriate  
> permissions.
>
> --
>
> I know other commercial packages do this, for a variety of  
> moderately valid reasons, but seriously -- I'm afraid package  
> managers will do things I don't like. Binaries that are  
> automatically run out of script-embedded tarballs and won't even  
> display the EULA without root access are right out, at least until  
> I've reverse engineered them and can run the installation in a more  
> controlled fashion.
>
> 	Zach
>
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