On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, lhmwzy wrote: > > > > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ > > > > > > DragonFly BSD > > Thanks for the notice! > > > No i don't think so ! > > > > if i understand correctly (iiuc) then it's a wiki and somebody > > may have spammed the front page. > > > > In the IRC log, it appears that corecode|polachok observed this > > and fixed the front page. > > It was a defacement through an exploit in ikiwiki, because the markup had not > been changed. We're looking into it. > > cheers > simon >
Hi Simon: In most cases the wiki software does not need to run as root. You mention the possibility of an exploit, the stuff documented at http://ikiwiki.info/security/ talks about a 'pending git backend audit'. thanks Saifi.