SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

[John C. Archambeau]

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 :-(

Yes it does, you just need to make sure you're using MS-DOS 3.30 or later.

     // JCA

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