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|    Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro    |
|    Re: Linux Daily?    |
|    29 Jul 19 08:58:00    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 909.fido-linux@3:633/410 21a37ee9       REPLY: 113.fido_linux@1:135/371 21a311d3       TID: SBBSecho 3.03-Linux r3.65 Dec 31 2017 GCC 4.6.3       -=> On 07-28-19 13:29, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-               ER> Well, back in the SUSE 5.0 days, there was this one annoying thing it        ER> had, which did deter me from it for a LOOOOOONG time.              I think my issues were more to do with package management, I didn't like the       package management system, found it more clunky than either Yum or Apt.               ER> They, out of box install, setup NFS servers with exports to / by        ER> default, with a known reported vulnerability in NFS at the time.               ER> It literally took a week of using SUSE as a NAT server on dialup, and        ER> being connected on IRC as I usually always am (still even today!), to        ER> get a message on my consoles saying:               ER> "A darker side of nowhere..."               ER> And when I checked the process lists, there was something running: rm        ER> -rf / which had a parent pid of the NFS servers.              Ouch! :-( Yeah I rarely ran NFS servers, and never exported /.                     ... I hear what you're saying but I just don't care.       === MultiMail/Win v0.51       --- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 226/17 227/114 229/275 354 426 452 616 1014 240/5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 280/464 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/0       SEEN-BY: 633/267 280 281 384 410 412 509 640/1384 712/848 3828/7       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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