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Article #189515Re: Backdoor rumor
From: Per Bothner
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 02:09
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 02:09
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Enough. What happened, according to Stallman, is that some people installed the movemail (?) program setuid root, even though there was nothing in the instructions telling them to do so. (Since then, to guard against such people, movemail has been made more robust.) (I know about people going beyond the instructions. At least two people had problems with my mips patches for gdb. It turned out they had "assumed" they should use gcc, even though the default setup used cc, there was no instruction to change that, and in fact the Makefile warns about using gcc (because system include files tend to be non-ANSI-compliant). Now, I have nothing against experimenting, but, folks, please realize that when you go beyond the instructions, you *are* experimenting.) -- --Per Bothner bothner@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Dept, U. of Wisconsin-Madison
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,f9625cb2bdcc701c X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-31 22:50:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!uwvax!sevenlayer.cs.wisc.edu!bothner From: bothner@sevenlayer.cs.wisc.edu (Per Bothner) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backdoor rumor Message-ID: <1991Feb1.020903.9637@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 02:09:03 GMT References: <9101251838.AA12154@geech.ai.mit.edu> <1991Jan31.150657@osf.org> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 18