Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:42:33 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Attacks bringing my system down! |
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On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 12:08:45PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> The finger that comes with Linux is not vulnerable.
<whine type="off-topic"> Linux doesn't come with any user space utilities. Linux == Linus' kernel. Linux != {RedHat, Debian, SuSE, ...} Linux. There are zillions[0] of different finger servers out there. </whine>
> Keep it up to date. Same thing can be said about Solaris, or > Windows, or any other operating system or distribution. There are a pile > of update RPM's out there for RedHat 6.0 and a lot of them are security > related. Get them installed.
If you're really brave and run Debian, just chuck security.debian.org into /etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" as a cron job <g>[1]
[0] Maybe a slight exaggeration. [1] No, I'm not really suggesting this. Always read ChangeLog before upgrading important system software.
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