Re: Gnome crashing

2000-03-27 Thread Ivan Jager
viri- wrote: > > rawhide tree? I'm a little new to linux, and lin dev... sorry.. > what do you mean? ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rawhide -- Ivan Jager -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-27 Thread JF Martinez
> > It is unfortunate that RedHat's SU keeps the same environment and > > specially the same PATH as this leaves the user open to a trivial > > attack > > This only is a problem if you "su" from someone else's account, > something a good administrator should be wary of. Otherwise "." should > eit

Re: "Strange" question: what is the purpose of /home !?

2000-03-27 Thread herrold
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > > Are there any other files besides mtab in /etc that are "always" > > absolutely needed to be written to in order to have a functioning > > system? > > Answer it yourself: > find /etc/ -type f -newer /var/log/dmesg.2.3.99-pre3 How about: find

Re: RedHAt's SU the mother of all trojan horses

2000-03-27 Thread Matt Fahrner
> It is unfortunate that RedHat's SU keeps the same environment and > specially the same PATH as this leaves the user open to a trivial > attack This only is a problem if you "su" from someone else's account, something a good administrator should be wary of. Otherwise "." should either be at the