On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:51, steve wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:16, InfoHelp wrote: > > > > > >>I read the thread - it proves my point. > >> > >>Unchanged uname means an fsck-lot more than your anti-RMS vendetta. > >> > >> > >> > > > >what does an unpatched uname mean and what is the point? > > > > > > > [snip] > > Unpatched means download the source, compile, run. Patched has an edit > or 2 in between. I've used it as a ''security'' measure in the past to > return a non-sensical id string from apache to confuse the script kiddies.
I know what unpatched means, I wanted to know why Rik thought it was significant in the current context. > > Steve
