<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Johnny Russ wrote:<br>
><br>
> It seems they have even made this unnecasary now. They have a webpage where<br>
> you can just click on a link to a php script that will get the installation<br>
> process going on an existing Ubuntu machine:<br>
> <a href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu" target="_blank">http://www.mythbuntu.org/existing-ubuntu</a>. This should install all of the<br>
> packages you need and it will take care of most of the configuration you<br>
> would need to do also.<br>
><br>
</div>Jesus! If I click on a link in some random website, it upgrades my machine?<br>
While I do not doubt the sincerity of the Mythbuntu crew, just imagine if any<br>
Tom, Dick or Vladimir can do that to some machine anywhere on the network, with<br>
any software of their choice, while I just think I am looking at some innocuous<br>
web page. How the heck do I guard against that?</blockquote><div><br>Calm down. The page links to an apt:// link which will install the package if you click on it. No different than downloading an executable. What happens when you click on it depends entirely on what your browser is set to do with those link types and file types<br>
<br>Kevin</div></div><br></div>