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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!cairo!avalon From: avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: security hole, crontab Date: 22 Jun 93 10:47:31 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <avalon.740746051@cairo> References: <3641@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <2035tsINNjmn@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <HSU.93Jun22050510@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.16 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? Try using "what" to find out when that version of rdist was written and what version in is. Compare that to what is around today. Darren