"Philip J. Koenig" schrieb: > > There has been a heated discussion on this over in the FreeBSD > security list, suffice to say that Theo's obnoxious attitude doesn't > help matters. Nonetheless this is important info:
Why is that obnoxious at all? > > We've been trying to warn vendors about 3.3 and the need for privsep, > > but they really have not heeded our call for assistance. They have > > basically ignored us. Some, like Alan Cox, even went further stating > > that privsep was not being worked on because "Nobody provided any info > > which proves the problem, and many people dont trust you theo" and > > suggested I "might be feeding everyone a trojan" (I think I'll publish > > that letter -- it is just so funny). HP's representative was > > downright rude, but that is OK because Compaq is retiring him. Except > > for Solar Designer, I think none of them has helped the OpenSSH > > portable developers make privsep work better on their systems. > > Apparently Solar Designer is the only person who understands the need > > for this stuff. > > > > So, if vendors would JUMP and get it working better, and send us > > patches IMMEDIATELY, we can perhaps make a 3.3.1p release on Friday > > which supports these systems better. So send patches by Thursday > > night please. Then on Tuesday or Wednesday the complete bug report > > with patches (and exploits soon after I am sure) will hit BUGTRAQ. I (have been prof. programmer in the 80s already) can estimate the way programmers feel these days. -- *��., ��,.��*���*� =Oliver@home= *��., ��,.��*��*� I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<< _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
