From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 28 8:53:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304901527F for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from workstation.etinc.com (port23.netsvr1.cst.vastnet.net [207.252.73.23]) by etinc.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA00271; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:52:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902281652.LAA00271@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:59:45 -0500 To: Harold Gutch , Greg Lehey From: Dennis Subject: Re: Cobalt blames linux for their security problems! Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990228132208.A18501@foobar.franken.de> References: <199902271927.OAA26965@etinc.com> <19990227211853.N7279@lemis.com> <199902271927.OAA26965@etinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:22 PM 2/28/99 +0100, Harold Gutch wrote: >On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 02:36:06PM -0500, Dennis wrote: >> >>> There's a good idea.. use a free OS and then blame it for your problems.. >> >They could just as well have run FreeBSD. The issue here is that they >> >(or somebody else) are blaming the OS for their own mistakes. >> >> One problem with cobalt is that they arent running the latest kernels which >> fix >> the problem....it seems that THAT is their fault. >> >The latest Linux-kernels don't allow the shells to create their >history-files ? Or do the latest kernels prevent httpds from >reading from users' homedirectories ? > >I somehow fail to see what the kernel should have to do with the >"Cobalt-bug". I was referring to the security problems associated with the 2.0.33 kernel which the cobalt was running....again I accept my punishment for not finding the beginning of the thread. :-) Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message