Subj : Re: Linux Daily?
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Eric Renfro
Date : Sun Jul 28 2019 13:29:06

  Re: Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Tony Langdon to Eric Renfro on Sun Jul 28 2019 12:45 pm

 ER>> Heh yeah. It's funny, for me, I hated Red Hat back then. I actually
 ER>> had preferred Debian and actually more than that, I preferred SUSE.
 ER>> I think 

 TL> I never liked SUSE for some reason. Can't recall why now, but it wasn't my
 TL> cup of tea.

I do remember running SuSE 5.x "Shareware" heh heh heh.

 TL> Yeah, I tried SUSE before the OpenSUSE days, but even then I wasn't keen
 TL> on it. 

Well, back in the SUSE 5.0 days, there was this one annoying thing it had,
which did deter me from it for a LOOOOOONG time.

They, out of box install, setup NFS servers with exports to / by default, with
a known reported vulnerability in NFS at the time. 

It literally took a week of using SUSE as a NAT server on dialup, and being
connected on IRC as I usually always am (still even today!), to get a message
on my consoles saying: 

"A darker side of nowhere..."

And when I checked the process lists, there was something running: rm -rf /
which had a parent pid of the NFS servers. 

It was a slow server that was running SUSE as a dialup system at the time, so
the process of removing everything took a looooooong time, and by the time it
wwas done, I already had a newly rebuild backup NAT/Dialup solution ready to
replace it, more secure. 

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