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Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Thu Oct 29 17:14:50 1998
Reply-To: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:57:46 -0500
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RedHat's distribution is one of the least buggy. Slackware is the worst (I
know from experience).
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leo <leonardo@dinamicmultimedia.es>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>;
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Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 9:42 AM
Subject: RedHat bugs???
>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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