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From: bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman)
Subject: Re: security hole, crontab
Message-ID: <1993Jun22.025600.18559@fwi.uva.nl>
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Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1993 02:56:00 GMT
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hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) writes:


>In article <2035tsINNjmn@xs4all.hacktic.nl> cor@hacktic.nl (Cor) writes:
>   btw...is everyone aware the old..old....OLD rdist bug works on 386bsd?

>A new version of rdist was posted about a year ago, which does something
>differently.  It is not compatible with the old rdist, but has
>compatibility mode.  I think a security problem in the earlier version was
>mentioned either in the posting or the documentation.  Is the rdist
>included in the 386bsd the old one or the new one?

Id say its the old one (not based on facts) since the 2 bugs I tried
both worked.
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