Re: Off-topic:Newbie

2000-06-09 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 9/06/00 at 23:18 Alexandru Sofronie wrote: >Hi! >Please help me with a newbie discussion list about RH Linux! > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Look on Redhats site, under the communitty area somewhere there is the redhat-list that is the general all versi

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread JF Martinez
> > [ speaking for myself here, not my employer and so on ... ] > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, JF Martinez wrote: > > > > I disagree about no "MTA worth his salt," and sendmail certainly DOES > > > deliver mail to root. > > > > > > You can always create an alias yourself. > > > > > > > I know it b

device Driver Debugging.

2000-06-09 Thread Samdeep Nayak
Hi, I want to debug a linux device driver using "int 3" command. I was not able to get any info on this. If any one can throw some light on this it would be great. Thanks Samdeep -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Off-topic:Newbie

2000-06-09 Thread Alexandru Sofronie
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Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Pinnock
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:42:40AM +0200, JF Martinez wrote: > I know it but there will be people who don't know about it, forget > it or perhaps one day a person at RedHat makes a mistake and my alias > file is overwritten with a vanilla one where root is not aliased. After any install or upgrad

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Garrigues
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ihnat) > Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:28:39 -0500 (CDT) > > That's only partially true. The fact of the matter is that mail _will_ > go to root, and there's nothing wrong with that fact _per se_. I do > NOT want someone else coding their idea of security into tools

Re: /sbin in root's $PATH?

2000-06-09 Thread John Summerfield
> > --YjUCIDG0UL7zSTfa > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Friday, June 09 2000, John Summerfield may have said: > > > > of getting a login shell for root. Logging in as root at a console > > > (somethi

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Dave Ihnat
JF Martinez wrote: > I know it but there will be people who don't know about it, forget > it or perhaps one day a person at RedHat makes a mistake and my alias > file is overwritten with a vanilla one where root is not aliased. You _do_ have regular backups, don't you? > Everything you do as ro

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, John Summerfield wrote: > I posted a harmless script here a while ago; however, mail.redhat.com > wouldn't resolve about then & some mail bounced. > > I'm trying again;-) Just try click on the attachment and see what happens. > Prudence suggests you peruse it first;-) Noth

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread John Summerfield
> It is not inherently insecure to have mail delivered to root, because > first of all, it is just text. If I as root _decide_ to interpret it as a > script (by using a stupid MUA), then that's _my_ fault, not sendmail's. It is, of course, sensible to test your MUA. I posted a harmless script h

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
[ speaking for myself here, not my employer and so on ... ] On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, JF Martinez wrote: > > I disagree about no "MTA worth his salt," and sendmail certainly DOES > > deliver mail to root. > > > > You can always create an alias yourself. > > > > I know it but there will be people w

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread JF Martinez
> > > > > Someone noticed that kmail tries (and fails due to access rights) to > > interpret scripts in mail and wondered about a Linux box being stopped > > thanks to a scrpt beoing mailed to root. However no MTA worth his > > salt (and that means sendmail isn't) would accept to send mail to >