Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 23:15:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Trojan Horse Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95.970508231223.29330A-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> In-Reply-To: <m0wPfH4-0007zZC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>
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Germany (and that particular site) is supposed to be the home site. I maintain this..but our port takes freeWAIS-sf from another site because the version is more recent :-). On Thu, 8 May 1997, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > > The source distribution package for the FREEWAIS-SF package obtained from > ls6-www.informatik.uni.dortmund.de is effectively a Trojan Horse for > FreeBSD systems. Untarring it onto your system will effectively drive > your file system/utilities crazy, probably because of the question > marks '?' in the test file names confusing the shell (bash/tcsh in my case). > > Try it, you will love it! "rm -rf" fails, but they can be removed with > 'rm' in the current directory. > > I found it out when an older copy of 'tar' failed with a sig 11. > > >
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