On Monday 10 August 2009 16:10:53 Grant Edwards wrote: > > Red Hat were quite clear at the time that the release was not > > actually for real use, more for testing. I think the switch to > > glibc-2 was the underlying reason. Anyway, lots of folks got > > bitten because they installed and used it anyway. > > > > Perhaps you got caught up in that? > > It could be there were services running that I didn't know > about. If so, they would have had to have been installed on the > sly by Anaconda without having a checkmark next to them. They > also would have had to start up without any notification on the > boot-up screen.
Sounds like it was more like simple bad luck. Exploits have always been a part of a sys admin's life. The RH version in question never did anything funny behind the scenes - it just set everything to on by default and presented a yes/no dialogue; which most users simply clicked yes on. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
