Re: joe: Potential security risk: control characters in filenames are printed without filtering.

2000-11-26 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Since one security issue has been fixed in joe very recently, I parsed its bug list a bit and noticed another fishy thing. On 7 Aug 1999, which was 1 year and 112 days ago (incredible, isn't it), Andras Korn wrote: if you create a file named ^G (ctrl-g) and open it in joe, you will hear a

Re: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:08:14PM -0400, Brad Allen wrote: erbenson NFS is insecure, deal with it. Such as use something besides NFS that is secure; the options are thin and immature, but you may still look around because I have a feeling there may be a good match, if you're willing to

Re: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-26 Thread Brad Allen
they can always plug in a new IDE disk which they can boot from, have root, mount NFS... they could also simply bring in a laptop, see I forgot about that. I ought to be retired and I'm not even employable. Arggh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: joe: Potential security risk: control characters in filenames are printed without filtering.

2000-11-26 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Since one security issue has been fixed in joe very recently, I parsed its bug list a bit and noticed another fishy thing. On 7 Aug 1999, which was 1 year and 112 days ago (incredible, isn't it), Andras Korn wrote: if you create a file named ^G (ctrl-g) and open it in joe, you will hear a

Re: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:08:14PM -0400, Brad Allen wrote: erbenson NFS is insecure, deal with it. Such as use something besides NFS that is secure; the options are thin and immature, but you may still look around because I have a feeling there may be a good match, if you're willing to

Re: task-unstable-security-updates?

2000-11-26 Thread Mike Fisk
You solution just optimizes doing a dist-upgrade. I'd like something that doesn't require that I do a dist-upgrade so often. By time-consuming, I didn't particularly mean the amount of time it takes to download. That can clearly be done in the backround, by cron, etc. Going through the

Re: Problems with root on network clients

2000-11-26 Thread Brad Allen
they can always plug in a new IDE disk which they can boot from, have root, mount NFS... they could also simply bring in a laptop, see I forgot about that. I ought to be retired and I'm not even employable. Arggh.