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Re: (fwd) SuSE Security Announcement: screen

At 09:59 AM 9/7/2000 +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:

[Most distributions with screen(1) installed are vulnerable to this
local root compromise.  Do:

      ls -l `which screen`

and if you see an `s' in the first 10 characters of the list (the file
permissions), you are vulnerable.  Please upgrade -- Raju]


And a nicer example of spoon-feeding would-be SysAdms was rarely seen. ;-)
Raj, heck, is the ISP business making you *shudder* user-friendly? The guy who compiled slackware on a 386? 

-- Ghane