[1812] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: update script reminder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Sep 23 01:52:21 1997
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 23 Sep 1997 01:52:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: mhpower@MIT.EDU's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:46:20 -0400"
mhpower@MIT.EDU writes:
> It would apparently be safe to instead recommend that users ensure
> that they have a passwd entry for "nobody" if they want to enable
> the finger service.
>
> I'm not sure what to make of RedHat's use of fatal("getpeername")
> rather than fatal("getpwnam"). Perhaps they didn't bother looking at
> the content of the patch, in addition to not bothering to suggest a
> more reasonable workaround. Incidentally, today's tftpd patch also has
That could well be. :-/ I guess I'll announce the false alarm.
Thanks.
--
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
