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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!hacktic!not-for-mail From: cor@dds.hacktic.nl (Cor Bosman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: cron..again..fix it already :) Date: 22 Jan 1994 02:37:02 +0100 Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses Lines: 11 Message-ID: <2hpvvuINNf8u@dds.hacktic.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dds.hacktic.nl I was amazed to see that at least one of the _extremely_ trivial ways to get root on a *bsd machine still works on FreeBSD. A friend of mine just installed the current version, and just for the hell of it I tried it..and it still works.. Maintainers of freebsd..please update the vixiecron that comes with it..its a very big security risk. I believe Vixie made a newer, somewhat more secure version. Cor... -- test123