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Re: anonftp hole: install problem?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Oct 22 13:48:56 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:42:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: Simon Karpen <slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961022133955.6056A-100000@karpes.stu.rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Simon Karpen wrote:
> I don't know what "rpm -V anonftp" would have done, as I (on somebody
> else's suggestion) tried reinstalling from the RPM to see if that fixed
> it. Erasing and reinstalling the RPM fixed all of the problems. I wonder
> if this is a problem with the install script. BTW, I detected the problem
> only because SATAN found it.
It could be, but I've looked a freshly installed system and couldn't
depulicate it.
> This could be an installation problem, could also just be cosmic rays. For
> example, once I ftp-installed picasso on 2 machines on the same day, using
> the same boot disks, from the same ftp server. One of them had NO setuid
> root files whatsoever (i.e. login had problems, as did lpr and company).
That's really weird :-(
Erik
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