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Re: Backdoor rumor

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From: Per Bothner
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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From: bothner@sevenlayer.cs.wisc.edu (Per Bothner)
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Subject: Re:  Backdoor rumor
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Date: 1 Feb 91 02:09:03 GMT
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