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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:13:20 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #899
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Linux-Misc Digest #899, Volume #2 Sat, 8 Oct 94 01:13:20 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Where is infomagic? (Ian Nandhra)
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Re: where to get wordperfect demo? (Hannes Reinecke)
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Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Nick Kralevich)
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Re: LINUX on an Mac Centris 610 DOS machine (Damir Smitlener)
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DOOM! -- Broken Pipe Error (Nancy Robison)
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Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ? (Paul Bash)
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Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux? (Boudewijn)
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[Q] Slackware 2.0.1, telnet, vi (James H. Haynes)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Brian T. Brunner)
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Re: A good motherboard? (Roland Baker III)
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Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one? (Geoff Rehmet)
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gas and header files (John Richardson)
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Re: Security hole in smail - be careful! (Robert Stockmann)
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Re: Datebook Recommendations (John Rodkey)
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Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN) (Tom Cross)
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Re: X News-reader for LinuX (dave delaune)
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From: ian@lasermoon.co.uk (Ian Nandhra)
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Subject: Re: Where is infomagic?
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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 94 02:03:03 GMT
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In article <36pioq$cbt@nyx10.cs.du.edu> spritcha@nyx10.cs.du.edu writes:
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>
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>sforseil@vub.ac.be (FORSEILLES STEPHAN) writes:
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>
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>> I tried to mail infomagic.com but it bounced...
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>
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>> Did they change their IP or did they just shut down theeir business?
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>
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>The 800# worked last time I tried it (a couple of weeks ago). Maybe
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>there is still a problem from the move. (?)
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Here are the numbers :
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+1-800-800-6613 USA and CANADA
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+1-602-526-9565 Voice
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+1-602-526-9573 Fax
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They are still having email problems though......
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--
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ian@lasermoon.co.uk
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Lasermoon Ltd, 2a Beaconsfield Road, Fareham, Hants, England. PO16 0QB
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Voice +44 (0) 329 826444 Fax: +44 (0) 329 825936
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+++ The UNIX & Linux Freeware Specialists! +++
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From: hare@zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Hannes Reinecke)
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Subject: Re: where to get wordperfect demo?
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Date: 07 Oct 1994 14:37:52 GMT
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michael@selway.umt.edu (Michael Babcock) schrieb:
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Anybody know where I can get a copy of the wordperfect demo that runs
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under linux?
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ftp.wordperfect.com is apparently dead.
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try zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de:/pub/Linux/Apps/WPdemo
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Thanks
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My pleasure
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Hannes
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=======
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Hannes Reinecke |
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<hare@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de> | XVII.: WHAT ?
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PGP fingerprint available | T.Pratchett: Small Gods
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see 'finger' for details |
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From: teffta@erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Subject: Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN)
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Reply-To: teffta@erie.ge.com
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 13:49:00 GMT
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In article <1994Oct3.182132.645@flapjack.ieunet.ie>, nick@flapjack.ieunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) writes:
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>Andrew Berkley (ajb@wonder.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote:
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The real solution, which
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>: most SVGALIB install programs do (witness zgv) is to install the program
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>: with owner _root_, and set the 'Run this program as owner' bit on the
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>: program.
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>: chmod a+s FileName
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>
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>This is *NOT* a solution. This is *DANGEROUS* and *STUPID*.
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Uh, think again. Unless svgalib has changed since the newest version
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I have, programs using it MUST be setuid root, or run by root. If it
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has changed since 1.11, then ignore the rest of this message.
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Just for fun I just ftp'ed the newest version I could find, 1.11,
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and the README says:
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Programs that use svgalib must be setuid root. I don't know how
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desirable it is to have this changed; direct port access can hardly
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be done without. Root priviledges can now be given up right after
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initialization.
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>Please a) read some books about system administration and security, and b)
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>think twice about the logical outcome of this sort of 'advice' before
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>posting to the net.
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No, setuid is not inherently evil. Dangerous if you don't know
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what you're doing, yes. Necessary, sometimes. Please a) read the
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documentation of the package you are speaking of, and b) know what
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you're talking about before posting kneejerk responses.
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The README in the package also states:
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4. How to use svgalib (and vgagl)
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Do use vga_init as a first line. This will give up root priviledges right
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after initialization, making setuid-root binaries relatively safe.
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--
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Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@erie.ge.com
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From: nickkral@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 04:26:04 GMT
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Greetings.
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I'm attempting to find a word processor for Linux. One that will
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allow me to create reports, and type up documents.
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So far I've been using Jove, which is useful as a text editor, but
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not as a word processor. I'm looking for somthing that will allow
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for different fonts, along with text formatting.
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I don't think emacs is what I'm looking for.
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I've heard of TeX, but I'm not really sure what it is, and I'm
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hesitating to install the 14 disks it takes for the binary
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distribution.
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So, what is a good word processor for Linux or Unix in general?
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Preferably somthing that is freeware or shareware.
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What do you use?
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Thanks,
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-- Nick Kralevich
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nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
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--
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Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
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"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than
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a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute,
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it is longer than any hour. That's relativity." -- Einstein
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From: damir@is.net (Damir Smitlener)
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Subject: Re: LINUX on an Mac Centris 610 DOS machine
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 19:20:04 -0500
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In article <37488g$2qs@gort.oit.umass.edu>, mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu
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(Michelle Murrain) wrote:
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> I'm strongly considering buying a used Macintosh Centris 610 DOS
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> machine, which has a PC motherboard (486 SX/25) inside. Has anyone out
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> there tried to install linux in this kind of machine? If so, were there
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> any special hurdles you had to jump? I've been working with linux for a
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> couple of months on a standard PC, but haven't ever installed it
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> myself, so I guess that makes me a relative newbie. Thanks for any
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> info.
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>
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> Michelle
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> Michelle Murrain, Ph.D.
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> School of Natural Science mmurrain@hamp.hampshire.edu
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> Hampshire College mmurrain@family.hampshire.edu
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> Amherst, MA 01002
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> URL: http://www.hampshire.edu/Hampshire/ns/html/Murrain.html
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Having asked this myself, the replies I received all said...Nope, won't
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work. Apparently Linux needs to see an IDE floppy (? Why ?) or it has to
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boot from an IDE hard drive. They don't sound like particularly good
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reasons to me, but that is what I've been told.
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Maybe someone here can enlighten us? The new Houdini card for PowerMacs is
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due in a few weeks, and Linux would solve oh! so many of my problems.
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--
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damir smitlener
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gt7092d@prism.gatech.edu
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damir@is.net
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From: seawitch@intruder.navo.navy.mil (Nancy Robison)
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Subject: DOOM! -- Broken Pipe Error
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 17:38:54 GMT
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Reply-To: seawitch@navo.navy.mil
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Hey,
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I just downloaded DOOM for linux, and when I try to crank it up
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I get a broken pipe error. Any Suggestions?
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Also, the Xwindow pops up ok, but All the graphics are kinda
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hosed. I'm running on a 486DX33, IDE, SVGA-Orchid Celsius, 8meg
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RAM w/4meg swapfile. Linux 1.1.45/XFree86-3.1/Fvwm. Any help
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would be greatly appreciated. I've played this game under MSDOG
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and would like to see it under Linux.
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Thanks,
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--
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N. Robison
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seawitch@navo.navy.mil
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=================================================================
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Standard Disclaimers Apply!
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=================================================================
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From: pbash@netcom.com (Paul Bash)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Linux Plug and Play CD ver1.1 ?
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:25:06 GMT
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In article <pbashCx5M60.AE0@netcom.com>, Paul Bash <pbash@netcom.com> wrote:
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>
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> 4) When attempting to auto-detect my modem and mouse, the install process
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> detected the mouse on the port where my modem is attached and detected no
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> modem _at all_. Even though Linux has been happily using this modem and
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> mouse for the last year. The result was that I'm thrown onto the X desktop
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> with no mouse but fvwm waiting for me to click the mouse button to indicate
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> where I want it to place the Control Panel window. I'm given absolutely
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> no chance to override what the install process detected. I have to
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> reboot the system, manually edit the Xconfig file, and start again. Good
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> thing I know where to find the Xconfig file. Many newcomers wouldn't. Nice.
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>
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This is wrong. I went back and checked things and you _are_ given the option of
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specifying your mouse port the first time you try to run X. The install process
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still didn't locate my modem and still didn't give me an option to specify where
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it was, but my X problems were probably just a product of my having a bad day.
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--
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Paul Bash
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pbash@netcom.com
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From: boud@rempt.xs4all.nl (Boudewijn)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
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Subject: Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 94 23:50:00 CET
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Reply-To: boud@rempt.xs4all.nl
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In article <1994Oct7.140705.4697@midway.uchicago.edu>
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(goer@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote on Re: Word (Text) processors for Linux?
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>
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> This is not to say that LaTeX is a bad system. It probably serves many
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> people's needs quite well. I just don't think it's the system of the fu-
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> ture.
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>
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Couldn't agree more. I tried Linux and all editors it came with, but
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even for Dutch they weren't adequate; now I use Windows with a
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US-International keyboard definition and some Tibetan and IPA fonts I made in
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CorelDraw!.
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(For some other poster, who's name got lost on my hard disk: I have tried
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to program both Windows and X-Windows and found them equally impossible.
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But at least, there is Visual Basic for wimps like me...)
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--
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Boudewijn Rempt
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Kloosterstraat 34 1.2, 2021 VN Haarlem.
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't Gezichtje eerst, dan de handen,
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dan de bibben, en 't laatst de tanden.
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Mijnheer Dil, De tuinen van Dorr, Paul
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Biegel.
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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes)
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Subject: [Q] Slackware 2.0.1, telnet, vi
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 04:54:15 GMT
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I just installed Slackware 2.0.1 after wiping the disk. I did not select
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VIM to be installed, so I have whatever vi it is you get when you don't
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select VIM.
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I telnet from a Sun workstation (SunOS 4.1.3) to the Linux machine. stty
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shows the terminal (xterm) has 0 rows and 0 columns. If I run vi and do
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:set it tells me there are 65 lines. If I use stty and set rows 24 and
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restart vi it still things there are 65 lines.
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If I rlogin from the same Sun workstation to the Linux machine stty
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correctly shows 24 rows and vi correctly gets 24 lines.
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How are we losing the terminal geometry with telnet, and why isn't vi
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getting it right after I have set it with stty?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: brunner@pax.ssd.loral.com (Brian T. Brunner)
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 19:25:23 GMT
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In article <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu>, wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
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writes:
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!! Xref: enterprise comp.os.linux.misc:26480 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2887
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!! Path:
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!!
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enterprise!wdl1!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!usenet.ee.p
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pdx.edu!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston
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n.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin
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!! From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
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!! Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
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!! Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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!! Date: 6 Oct 1994 20:03:40 GMT
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!! Organization: University of Houston
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!! Lines: 17
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!! Message-ID: <371l6s$r63@masala.cc.uh.edu>
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!! References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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!! NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu
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!! Keywords: mosaic term telnet
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!!
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!! In article <36nd1u$d80@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
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!! Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
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!! >In article <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu>, Po-Han Lin <plin@girtab.usc.edu>
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!! wrote:
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!! >>386bsd is monolithic (controlled I guess), while linux is non-monolithic.
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!! >
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!! >You were misinformed. Both Linux and the BSD's use monolithic kernels.
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!! >For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
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!! >and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
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!! >was in it's infancy.
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!!
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!! BTW, I have a question. Compiling FreeBSD kernel in 386 is much faster
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!! than compiling Linux kernel in 486 with twice memory.
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!! I found that Linux compiles everything whatever options I choose.
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!! Am I doing something wrong, or is it the feature of Linux ?
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!!
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!! --
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!! Woody Jin
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--
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.sig under construction, please hold.
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From: baker@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Roland Baker III)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
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Subject: Re: A good motherboard?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 05:04:15 GMT
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I've been building systems with the Pentium 90 INTEL Plato
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Mother Board and the NCR SCSI and ATI WIN TURBO. I've
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had great sucecess. I've seen the highest performance yet
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under Linux.
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Best,
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Roland
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Net Express
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--
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Roland H. Baker, III
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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
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University of California at Berkeley
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baker@bigbang.berkeley.edu
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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
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Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:22:26 GMT
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Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za
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=====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE=====
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In <jeffpkCx4wtM.B64@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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>Actually, as I understand it, this was not what the poster was talkign
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>about. From his parenthetical statement, I think he's referring to the
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>fact that Linux is being developed openly by a large group, while FreeBSD
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>is controlled and dvevloped by one fairly closed group. (I don't know if
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>thsi is true, BTW., I've just heard thsi claim before.)
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This has been a topic of debate previously as well. FreeBSD's
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development is open to anyone who wants to take part. The official
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distributions happen to be coordinated by a group of people. This
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group is a dynamic entity. People come and go with time (I think it is
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fair to say that there are more coming than going). Anybody can
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contribute code for inclusion into the releases -- if enough people
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like it, it is really good, or you bug someone with commit priveledges
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long enough, then it will get in. (A warning here: if you contribute
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enough code, you will probably be given commit priveleges, you will cease
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to have a social life, and get very little sleep. :-))
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The Linux kernel is coordinated by one person (Linus). Anybody can
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contribute code to it. Thus there is not much difference here, except
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that a group of people maintain the FreeBSD sources, whereas one person
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maintains the Linux kernel. Other parts of Linux are maintained by
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individuals or groups, and distributions are done by yet other groups.
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(With FreeBSD there just happens to be one team, who work together on
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shipping the kernel, the userland, packages, and the whole damn thang.)
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I don't think it is fair to say that either is more or less open, or
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that the latest sources of one are more quickly available than the
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other. (You can get the latest source changes to FreeBSD within hours
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of the commits going through.) Anyone can subscribe to the mailing
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list which carries the commit log entries for source changes made, and
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can make their comments about the changes. I don't know if there is
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any such way of getting to-the-minute updates of source changes made to
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Linux.
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(I wouldn't hazard a guess on how soon after a source change is made
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in Linux, it becomes available to the general hacking public.)
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I think the comment that Linux is developed by a large open group as
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against FreeBSD being controlled by a small number of people is
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incorrect. This is just failing to see the difference between the
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group of people who develop the system, and the group of people who
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take the responsibility of making sure that code repositories get
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maintained properly, that releases get rolled etc. etc.
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It is probably fair enough to say that both are developed by large
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groups of developers/hackers, while the way in which maintenance of
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source code (CVS etc), and the rolling of releases is done is very
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different. I don't think that anyone should go attacking either way as
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being bad, but should just stick with the system they think is good, and
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do some decent hacking, and contribute some nice code to it.
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This question is again open to debate. Some people are going to assert
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that the approach taken by FreeBSD and NetBSD is more open, whereas,
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others will advocate the Linux approach.
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From: jrichard@cs.uml.edu (John Richardson)
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Subject: gas and header files
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Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:24:48 GMT
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Is there any info about the seemingly "advanced" gas/gcc assembly
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in the linux header files? As I was searching though the code
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I came across
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#define restore_flags(x) \
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__asm__ __volatile__("pushl %0 ; popfl": /* no output */ :"r" (x):"memory")
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I can figure out what the first two ops are and what the macro does
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by the name and looking at the operations, but what are the ':'s and
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the "r" and the "memory"? Where would I look to get this info?
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--
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John Richardson
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jrichard@cs.uml.edu
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From: stock@dutsh7.tudelft.nl (Robert Stockmann)
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Subject: Re: Security hole in smail - be careful!
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 00:31:46 GMT
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In <ann-18955.781455444@cs.cornell.edu>, Martin Bartosch (martin2@sueton.ida.ing.tu-bs.de) wrote:
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: Hi,
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: last night I discovered a potential danger to all sites that run smail.
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: A quick check on some other sites (thanks to the folks on #linux)
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: revealed that most systems are affected by this.
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: Essentially, the smail bug will allow ordinary users to create files
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: anywhere they want to:
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: Assume /usr/lib/sendmail is a softlink to /usr/bin/smail.
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: $ /usr/lib/sendmail -d -D/etc/i_am_broken noone@universe
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: $ ls -l /etc/i_am*
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: Be aware of this. Some sites even come up with permissions rw-rw-rw-!
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: This behaviour is not affected by -smtp-debug.
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: Just my $0.02.
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: Martin.
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You can figure out these two of course:
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$ /usr/lib/sendmail -d -D/etc/shadow noone@universe
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$ /usr/lib/sendmail -d -D/etc/passwd noone@universe
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But it looks worse than it is. If an existing debug file like /etc/passwd
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is choosen, then the permissions of /etc/passwd are not changed to 666.
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At least not on my site. Furthermore are the debug lines appended
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to the already existing lines.
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However its of course serious trouble that Joe user at any Linux BBS
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can write in any file he wants. Luckily its only debug lines that
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are written, not passwd entrys for new or existing users:)
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Robert
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PS is there a quick fix for this security hole?
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|| R.M. Stockmann || Delft University of Technology ||
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|| stock@dutsh7.tudelft.nl || Department of Chemical Engineering ||
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|| phone: +31 15 784395 || Section Industrial Catalysis ||
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|| home: +31 1620 36177 || Julianalaan 136 ||
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|| fax: +31 17 784452 || 2628 BL Delft The Netherlands ||
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From: rodkey@coyote.rain.org (John Rodkey)
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Subject: Re: Datebook Recommendations
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 18:06:42 -0700
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ray@eskimo.com (Raymond Kraft) writes:
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>Hello,
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>Does anyone have any recommendations on a datebook that will run on a system
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>that does not have Motif? I've tried "plan", but it needs Motif, and
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>the precompiled version seems to exhibit a few quirks on my system. Thanks
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>in advance for any suggestions.
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You might consider 'ical'. it's a tcl script, and is pretty snazzy.
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John
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============[[[[[[]]]]]]============
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John Rodkey rodkey@westmont.edu
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Director of Academic Computing,
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Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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From: tomc@kendeco.com (Tom Cross)
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Subject: Re: How to let normal users run SVGALIB programs (SOLN)
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:35:05 GMT
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In article <36u4s2$1e4@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D R Barlow) writes:
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>In article <1994Oct3.182132.645@flapjack.ieunet.ie>,
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> nick@flapjack.ieunet.ie (Nick Hilliard) writes:
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>>Andrew Berkley (ajb@wonder.resnet.cornell.edu) wrote:
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>>: (try running sasteroids from a telnet :). But, since SVGALIB needs access
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>>: to /dev/console (new versions) which is a link to a tty0-6, you need
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>>: someway of letting it access them. One solution is to make tty? world
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>>: readable/writeable/etc, but that's just wrong... The real solution, which
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>>: most SVGALIB install programs do (witness zgv) is to install the program
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>>: with owner _root_, and set the 'Run this program as owner' bit on the
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>>: program.
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>>: chmod a+s FileName
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>>
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>>This is *NOT* a solution. This is *DANGEROUS* and *STUPID*.
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>
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>Arguably. It is however the only way to run svgalib programs as
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>non-root. The problem isn't the tty permission, it's the fact that
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>svgalib does direct port access.
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>
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Couldn't you use sudo? sudo allows you to setup certain users to use
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certain programs with root permissions.
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--
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Tom Cross System Administrator Kendeco Industrial Supply
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tomc@kendeco.com My opinions are mine, not my employer's
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Voice: 612-253-1020 FAX: 612-253-6956 Info: info@kendeco.com
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From: dave@nonematups.fr (dave delaune)
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Subject: Re: X News-reader for LinuX
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Date: 2 Oct 1994 07:10:44 GMT
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Reply-To: delaune@u.washington.edu
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In article <36hj41$kts@news.tamu.edu>, wrath@myhost.subdomain.domain (Wrath Child) writes:
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|> I'm looking for an Xnews reader for LinuX. If anyone has
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|> any info about something like this...I would be a very
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|> happy camper.
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|>
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|> Thanx,
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|> wrathchild
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try sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/networked/xrn-6.17.tar.gz
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Dave DeLaune
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