DJ Lucas wrote these words on 08/28/05 00:43 CST: > 3 seconds to really slow down a brute force attack. Yeah sure, that 3 > seconds is really gonna hurt...anyway, Linux_PAM-0.80 is fixed now WRT > the segfault issue with shadow's su. shadow-4.0.12 seems to work as > expected. I think LFS is in good shape as to gcc-4.0.1. There is one > other patch mentioned over on Greg's DIY-Dev list that should probably > be looked at. Take a look at the link in the patch header. This looks > to be an icky little bug; difficult to track down if I followed > correctly, but I have not yet seen the issue first hand.
>From what I can tell from the information you provided (following all relevant links), this is a tough bug to follow. I stopped reading when it was starting to dwell on the specs of ISO standards. I'd sure like to see something that explains it a bit easier. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 00:47:01 up 148 days, 20 min, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.24, 0.31 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
