[96781] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Milam)
Thu Oct 29 10:37:21 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:28:55 -0600 (CST)
From: Chuck Milam <milam@uwosh.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <36388219.4D525D58@dinamicmultimedia.es>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Leo wrote:
> I've been using redhat since release 4 (using 5.0 now).
Yes, but have you applied all the security patches and updates in the
errata?
> 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)...
Are you sure you were not running with an open xhost or something? This
seems too wierd...
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Chuck Milam I.T. Division - Academic Computing
milam@uwosh.edu University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh
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