From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 17 00:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12604 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12598 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA16659; Sat, 17 May 1997 09:25:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08258; Sat, 17 May 1997 09:20:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970517092021.DV14583@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:20:21 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: charlespeters@tecpro.com (Charles A. Peters) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 August 1996 - Server Installation References: <199705150340.XAA20538@ais.ais-gwd.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705150340.XAA20538@ais.ais-gwd.com>; from Charles A. Peters on May 14, 1997 23:43:41 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles A. Peters wrote: > I will be setting up a web / ftp / mail server, and I am planning to > use FreeBSD 2.1.5. I am wondering how stable this version is and if > there are any special problems that I may encounter. FreeBSD 2.1.x with x <= 6 has a serious security vulnerability. It is assumed that it's only exploitable by local users (thus might not be a problem when installing a server), but i would be careful. Also, version 2.1.7.1 has a number of other bugfixes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)