Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:48:10 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Jason Nugent <malhavoc@www.stomped.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a word of appreciation Message-ID: <200104142248.f3EMmFK63219@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:05:09 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104121002110.48281-100000@www.stomped.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104121002110.48281-100000@www.stomped.com>, Jason Nu gent writes: > > Folks, > > I'm not sure how much you get of this, but I just wanted to say thanks to > all of you working on the freebsd project. You do fine work. I'm not > sure how often you get to hear that, so I'm going to say it now. > > I just finished a routine upgrade of my FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE machine to > 4.3-RC, in order to make sure that the circulated ftp glob() vulnerability > wouldn't affect my system. > > I'm curious, though, if the lib-paranoia library in the ports collection > would have prevented the exploit from happening in the first place. Has > anyone experimented with this? I've been using FreeBSD since 2.0.5. I've been very pleased with the quality of the O/S. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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