From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 8 21:14:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08731 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 21:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fps.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA08726 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 21:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA33174; Thu, 8 May 1997 23:15:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 23:15:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" To: Tom Torrance at home Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Trojan Horse In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Germany (and that particular site) is supposed to be the home site. I maintain this..but our port takes freeWAIS-sf from another site because the version is more recent :-). On Thu, 8 May 1997, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > > The source distribution package for the FREEWAIS-SF package obtained from > ls6-www.informatik.uni.dortmund.de is effectively a Trojan Horse for > FreeBSD systems. Untarring it onto your system will effectively drive > your file system/utilities crazy, probably because of the question > marks '?' in the test file names confusing the shell (bash/tcsh in my case). > > Try it, you will love it! "rm -rf" fails, but they can be removed with > 'rm' in the current directory. > > I found it out when an older copy of 'tar' failed with a sig 11. > > >