Re: Debian 1.1 Problems

1998-06-17 Thread Marcus Johnson
Hi Steve, Thanks for the info on root shell exploits! If anyone has any more reasons I can use to persuade my ISP to upgrade from Debian 1.1 I'd be greatful. Marcus Stephen Carpenter wrote: "Root Shell Exploits" are bugs in programs that either run as root (like a network service deamon like t

Re: Debian 1.1 problems.

1998-06-17 Thread sjc
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:42:04PM -0700, Marcus Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 1998 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > >> So, given the fact I'm not in a position to compel the admin to upgrade > >> to Debian 1.3 or 2.0 (but can and will lobby for it), > > >Probably your admin will feel more necourage

Debian 1.1 problems.

1998-06-17 Thread Marcus Johnson
On Fri, 29 May 1998 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> So, given the fact I'm not in a position to compel the admin to upgrade >> to Debian 1.3 or 2.0 (but can and will lobby for it), >Probably your admin will feel more necouraged if you show him some of the >root shell expoits that have been found since

Re: Debian-1.1 problems: locale + dosemu + nfs-mount

1996-07-06 Thread Christophe Le Bars
**On 04 Jul, In article "Debian-1.1 problems: locale + dosemu + nfs-mount", ** RO (Rolf Obrecht) writes: RO>Hi out there, RO>I upgraded from 0.93 to 1.1 and found some problems: RO> RO>1.) Several programs which try to set the locale fail and give me error RO&