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   Message 6,064 of 8,232   
   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.   
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