NSS libraries prevent prelinking?
Ulrich Drepper
drepper at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 14:07:10 UTC 2009
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Bill Crawford wrote:
> Is there any way to avoid this? As time goes on, more and more programs and
> plugins (like the kde address book / calendar) are relying on encryption and /
> or signing, and starting to link against nss.
IMO this policy to prevent prelinking should be optional. I certainly
don't need the self-testing of NSS on my system . I trust prelink and
if someone can change the NSS libs, s/he can do much worse things, too.
I think the self-testing in NSS should be done only in FIPS mode.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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