[10050] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: If Orson Welles were only alive...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sat Feb 5 04:29:49 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 03:29:12 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, bzs@world.std.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402050749.BAA03658@tmc.edu> from "Stan Barber" at Feb 5, 94 01:49:40 am
>
> Karl,
> I am a little confused. CERT in CA-91:20 did recommend two things about
> rdist:
> 1. Install the vendor patches for rdist.
> 2. Or, chmod 711 rdist
>
> Now, you may wish that CERT say that the vendors are fools and their patches
> don't work. While such assertions may be fine coming from you or me, it
> probably means something differnt coming from CERT and I much rather Sun
> believe in CERT and believe CERT is out to embarrasse them.
Sorry, but anyone shipping a broken rdist at THIS point ought to be shot.
This is HARDLY a new hole.
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