[clamav-users] clamav-unofficial-sigs download script updated

Ralph Seichter abbot at monksofcool.net
Wed Feb 5 01:38:04 UTC 2020


* Michael Orlitzky via clamav-users:

> I've been dragging my feet on these updates because I don't know how
> to fix this. The least-bad idea I have so far is to just patch the
> script to die if it's run as EUID == 0.

I have run the steps the script would perform when run as root manually
because I refuse to run this particular script as root, ever. I have
seen some risky scripts over the years, but this one should be tossed
and rewritten in a secure fashion (quite possibly not in BASH).

-Ralph



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