SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR allbery at NCoast.ORG
Sun Mar 3 10:21:35 AEST 1991


As quoted from <348 at alderan.uucp> by chris at alderan.uucp (Christoph Splittgerber):
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| 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 :-(
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You can always boot up under Minix and dd it there...  :-)

++Brandon
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