Subj : Re: Linux Daily?
To   : Eric Renfro
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jul 29 2019 08:58:00

-=> On 07-28-19 13:29, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

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

I think my issues were more to do with package management, I didn't like the
package management system, found it more clunky than either Yum or Apt.

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

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

 ER> "A darker side of nowhere..."

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

Ouch! :-(  Yeah I rarely ran NFS servers, and never exported /.


.... I hear what you're saying but I just don't care.
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