[96774] in RedHat Linux List
RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo)
Thu Oct 29 09:59:42 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:56:26 +0100
From: Leo <leonardo@dinamicmultimedia.es>
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Hi all,
I've been using redhat since release 4 (using 5.0 now).
Just recently, I was chatting about linux with an individual on an irc
channel. Suddenly he started telling me everything I was using on my
computer (from the window manager, to irc client --that's easy--,
etc...)... Apparently he got into my computer thanks to a bug in
redhat's linux distribution (or so he said)... He told me the bug in
question is in lpd (among others). He also said that, in order to
protect myself, I should disable the printing service, by commenting out
the line in /etc/services, but this leaves me without proper printing
environment (I have to manually run lpd as root every time I send a job
to print).
Also, he said redhat's distribution is among the buggiest... said suse
is the least.
He gave me a program (called strobe), which scans remote computer's open
ports, but not the program he used to get into my computer.
Does anybody know if this is true ???
If it is, it's very scary!!!
Thanks in advance,
Leo Zayas
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