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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:41:24 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Raphael Bastos <tecnologia@...tosservice.com.br>
Cc: "Patrick J. Volkerding" <security@...ckware.com>,
	oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Bug script install slackware

Raphael -

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:45:23PM -0200, Raphael Bastos wrote:
> It would be a security flaw .... Patrick I only report here on the list
> because I sent an email to 30 days and getting no return. It would be
> a bug that affected the slackware developers.
> 
> But if you want to play a scenario, okay. Simply just change the variable mount
> point to a directory other than / mnt and try to run the default
> installation of Slackware, so you have a broken installation.

According to what you wrote so far, the bug is not a security flaw.
Please take further discussion of this (with Patrick) off-list.  Thanks!

Alexander

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