From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 11 05:14:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F9A1065672; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from ran.psg.com (ran.psg.com [IPv6:2001:418:1::36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA9F8FC20; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rmac.psg.com) by ran.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.70 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1NIxq3-00059m-RZ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:47 +0000 Received: from rmac.local.psg.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rmac.psg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8B72C987FB; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:14:47 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:14:47 +0900 Message-ID: From: Randy Bush To: Anton Shterenlikht In-Reply-To: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091210144141.GB834@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/22.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:14:49 -0000 > FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a > (comparatively) poor security record. unlike linux or windoze, rofl randy