I've been running RH5 for a little while at home, and I have found what
I believe to be a security flaw and an application error. Does anybody
have some enlightenment regarding these:
First, when any user uses xlock, entering the root password at the
prompt will stop xlock, returning to the user's screen. Is this
intended as a backdoor-type feature?
Second, from control panel I choose user manager, and then make changes
in groups or users. Then i click the "save" box. This doesn't appear
to do anything, because when I click "Quit" it asks me, "Are you sure
you want to quit without saving?" Then I can choose "Save and Quit" and
everything's peachy, but it's still annoying.
I've seen a few other application-type bugs, I'll try to remember them
and report them. The most notable is that the File System GUI tool
seems to really be goofy. Every time I use it it ruins all my added
mounts (physical and NFS). Does anyone use this _frequently_ who has
never seen flakiness?
Also, does anybody have plans to fix Netscape Communicator so that
java/javascript work, and so that it won't just exit when a user does
two operations quickly while it's busy? (more details if you want them.)
I'm considering deploying RH more widely, but the flakiness brings up
questions.
Also, just as a side note:
I read a lot about development for LINUX device drivers for ATM NICs
years ago, but have been unable to locate more recent info. Are there
any continuing efforts for this? I mean which support VBR/ABR, UNI
3.1/4.0, MPOA, etc?(I could probably even get the NICs for someone who
wanted to do development on this.
Any efforts for development on HIPPI products (like for the SGI SUMAC
product)? This stuff does GigaBYTE/sec throughput, and is excellent for
clustering/ parallel/ distributed processing, and it would be a shame
for LINUX to be left out.
Forgive any ignorance on my part-- I really have tried to do research on
my own.
Cheers,
lane
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Lane J. Bryson Network Product Analyst
RULDS2 Interphase Corporation, Systems Analysis Group
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