[4093] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Bogus NetKit-B-0.07B (was Re: wtmp entries)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holland)
Sun Aug 18 20:46:22 1996
From: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 18:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199608180113.LAA17457@sctnugen.ppp.gu.edu.au> from "tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au" at Aug 18, 96 11:13:13 am
> > In any event, the current versions of rlogind and telnetd can be
> > gotten from NetKit-B-0.07A or NetKit-B-0.08 (which I will be releasing
> > later tonight.)
>
> Cool... looking forward to it.
Actually, it's been delayed (for some good reasons and some bad
reasons) - look for it early in the week.
> > Please note that "NetKit-B-0.07B" is a bogus unauthorized release;
> > please delete it and definitely don't use it.
>
> Out of curiosity, I've just done a diff between the .07A and .07B
> versions. There are no changes to any of the core source code, it has
> some changes (improvements, imho) in some of the Makefiles,
> differences in the binaries, and it has the gnu readline library
> included.
Yeah, I know. But you don't know the binaries included weren't
trojanized. Whoever did it didn't bother to put his name on it
anyplace; he was passing it off as mine. Nor did he attempt to contact
me in advance or even afterwards.
This is not what people who are honestly trying to make fixes do.
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