The Internet Virus--Another issue

Juergen Wagner gandalf at csli.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Dec 1 14:53:58 AEST 1988


In article <1026 at ccnysci.UUCP> dan at ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes:
>...
>But there is really more to this than sendmail debug.  After a bit of
>fussing I got adb to fix sendmail on the Celerity.  I haven't seen a
>method for using adb to fix fingerd and ftpd.
>...

Fixing ftpd and fingerd happens by replacement! There were postings in
comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes and other newsgroups. ftpd needs three little changes
to run under Ultrix, too. And if you're installing fingerd as setuid/setgid
to nobody/nobody, you're pretty safe with these two guys, I think.

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf at csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner at arisia.xerox.com



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