From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 12 13:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8224337B407 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6CKqOT78154; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:52:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:52:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Byrnes To: Mike Tancsa Cc: jamie rishaw , Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 local root In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010712162317.0326d510@marble.sentex.ca> Message-ID: <20010712155151.H77631-100000@awww.jeah.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:13 PM 7/12/01 -0500, jamie rishaw wrote: > >Patch your systems. Maintain security. > > I guess what some people want to do is to make sure the patch worked. i.e. > test before and after. > > >Dont add untrusted users. > > Not always possible.... e.g. an ISP shell server. Indeed. I had a user today try and use the exploit. Too bad for him that we upgraded to the latest -stable last night. It's an unfortunate world we live in. Chris Byrnes, Managing Member JEAH Communications, LLC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message