From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 14 05:43:10 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA28336 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 05:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id FAA28331 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 05:43:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA05170; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:39:16 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA04028; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:37:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id OAA26445; Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:29:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612141329.OAA26445@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: vulnerability in new pw suite To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 14:29:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: proff@iq.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <19961214125916.988.qmail@suburbia.net> from "proff@suburbia.net" at "Dec 14, 96 11:59:16 pm" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > Is there any particular reason why you didn't submit this to the > > author in the first place? (Forwarded to David now.) > > The pw code only made it into current a week ago. I doubt anyone > is using it yet. Your doubts are wrong. It's as well in 2.2, and sysinstall is using it. (This has been the main reason to force its merge into 2.2.) Anyway, it's always best to approach the authors first for code that is being actively maintained. They are the first to include new submissions, rather than anybody else. -- 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. ;-)