Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!unixland!bill From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386 Message-ID: <1991Feb16.162634.13024@unixland.uucp> Date: 16 Feb 91 16:26:34 GMT References: Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix Lines: 18 In article lumpi@dobag.in-berlin.de (Joern Lubkoll) writes: >davidg@aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes: >>New, but related subject: when ISC fires up after the login it puts >>this really grotesque series of lines about copyrights and such >>which I would like to get rid of. Anybody know if this is possible? >use a binary editor and patch zero-bytes at beginning of the copyright >strings, they will never be seen again.. > Could something similar be done to "fix" something in the kernel to disallow that "writing to user area" bug? It seems that ISC has a configurable parameter, but Esix does not. -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix 508-655-3848 (2400) 508-651-8723 (9600-HST) 508-651-8733 (9600-PEP-V32) other: heiser@world.std.com