From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 16 14:16:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA07933 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:16:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA07910 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from gold.interlog.com (batsy@gold.interlog.com [198.53.145.2]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.7.6) with ESMTP id RAA05259; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:15:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (batsy@localhost) by gold.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.6.10) with SMTP id RAA17038; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:16:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:16:18 -0500 (EST) From: jamie To: James Bass cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security risk? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961216085418.006997bc@mail.fastrans.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello.. I run multiple FreeBSD systems running 2.1.5 or greater on all of > them... I love it! It is the best, but.... Somone gave me this, and just > out of curiosity, I wanted to know if it was legitimate or not.... It is > allegedly a crontab bug... Indeed it is, look at freebsd-security for more information on it. I would also suggest subscribing to it, also bugtraq@netspace.org, best-of-security@suburbia.org, comp.risks (news) to keep up with what's going on with these:) -j "The beatings will continue until morale improves." Jamie Reid, Jr Sys-admin, batsy@interlog.com x232