On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, David L. Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14Oct01:1705+0200, R.S. wrote: > >> Important: we are not talking about any possible >> vulnerability, we are talking about THIS vulnerability. > > I did not understand your comment to be so limited. > Frankly I would be stupified to learn bash is installed > in any HMC and that would alarm me exceedingly. My point > is you cannot know if the HMC and SE platforms are so > vunerable.
Well, some of the HMC's are Linux based on what is basically a standard Intel PC. Most Linux systems have BASH installed. So it might not actually surprise me to find it on the disk, if I were to remove it and put it in another PC. Now, being able to _get_ to BASH is another story. But then I don't know how the GUI is implemented, so I can't say. For all that _I_ know, all that dragging and dropping runs BASH shell scripts to set up and run other programs. Might be fun to see. But not worth my job should I "destroy" the HMC. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
