Henri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OpenSource is said to be more secure : a question has come to my mind
> : before releasing the 9.1, will there be a security audit on critical
> apps, on drakconf tools ecc. or not ?

These tools only run with root permissions. Mot much to hack anymore
once you got that.

> Perhaps this would avoid big holes like the shutdown one, no ?

That's a local exploit. I can think of a few other local ``exploits'' as
well, like booting in single user mode.

I think you'd better leave the worrying about security to the experts.



# Han
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