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From: cor@hacktic.nl (Cor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: security hole, crontab
Date: 21 Jun 1993 19:10:39 +0200
Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses
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Message-ID: <204q2tINNm95@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
References: <3641@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <2035tsINNjmn@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <avalon.740637139@cairo>
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Keywords: security, alarm

avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:

>cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) writes:
>[...]
>>btw...is everyone aware the old..old....OLD rdist bug works on 386bsd?

>Is it just the old one which works or some of the other ones do too ?

It seems multiple bugs still work with the rdist program. I disabled
it since we dont use it anyways with a single machine. I would
suggest everyone else also removes the suid bit if you dont use rdist.
cor
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