SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Paul Gillingwater]

In article <goBeX10w163w at aegis.or.jp> davidg at aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes:
> As a sample of how "fast" ISC responds, I have been trying for a
> month to get them to send me a replacement for the disk that was
> supposed to update my $2149 Architech Developer to Multi-User. The
> disk got an Uncorrectable data read error, not doubt because the

Hah!  That's NOTHING!  We bought ISC 2.02, with TCP/IP and other
goodies in November 1989.  When it arrived, some of the disks that
formed part of VP/ix, TCP/IP and the Text Processing system had
unrecoverable read errors.  We shipped the disks back to the dealer,
who confirmed that they were unreadable.  Guess what -- the
Australian agent for ISC (who shall remain nameless, as they're
hopeless!) still haven't replaced them after over a year!

> New, but related subject: when ISC fires up after the login it puts
> this really grotesque series of lines about copyrights and such
> which I would like to get rid of. Anybody know if this is possible?

Yup.  I used emacs to edit the login binary, just place a null byte
at the start of the messages you wish to lose.  Works just fine.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul at actrix.gen.nz