[95376] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Redhat errata updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Sat Oct 17 16:33:27 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 13:11:46 -0700
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Dave C. wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Do any of the errata updates update the core commands like passwd, su,
>ls, ps, etc...? The reason i'm asking this 'cause i bought a good book
>from O'Reilly 'Pratical Unix & Internet Security' in the book thay
A good suggestion, since someone could break into the system and put
in bogus versions of common tools, which could wreak havoc on your
system.
I would think some of the errata do update those files. What you should
do next is run rpm against those files, to find out which package
updated them -- for example, try 'rpm -qf /bin/passwd. If it was updated
legitimately, then the RPM of the update would differ from the one
on the original CD rom.
>Dave C.
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