SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[Randy Jarrett]

In <348 at alderan.uucp> chris at alderan.uucp (Christoph Splittgerber) writes:

>In article <1061 at wa4mei.UUCP> rsj at wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett) writes:

>>Yes it would be nice if they did that but until they do I write protect the
>>install diskette as soon as i receive it and make a copy (3 or 4) with dd to
>>do the install with. They have improved their install methods with each
>[]

>The problem here is, if you first install the system you don't have dd(1M)
>running to do the backup and the MESS-DOS diskcopy does not work with the
>ISC-boot disk :-(

>        Chris

If you can find a copy of PC-DOS ver 3.1 you can us it to make copies.
The diskcopy from it works.  Aparently changes made since then prevent
duplicating non-dos diskettes.
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