On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:34:38PM -0600, John Goerzen was heard to say: > 1) People that telnet to the box can go around and cat files (even > /etc/passwd!) without even logging in.
Eek! My Hurd installation is too out-of-date to check, but I'd guess that the permissions are messed up. The Hurd has a fourth set of permissions for people who haven't logged in yet; this should probably be set to --- for just about everything on the system in a normal setup. > 2) df doesn't work, saying: > > df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems Known bug -- I don't remember whether it's in df or the Hurd, though. > 3) there is no proc proc is a mostly undocumented feature of the Linux kernel ;-) I suppose someone could write a proc server for the Hurd, but no-one has.. Daniel -- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

