Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!paul From: paul@actrix.gen.nz (Paul Gillingwater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386 Message-ID: <1991Feb17.033231.13939@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 17 Feb 91 03:32:31 GMT References: Organization: Actrix Information Exchange Lines: 22 Comment-To: davidg@aegis.UUCP In article davidg@aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes: > As a sample of how "fast" ISC responds, I have been trying for a > month to get them to send me a replacement for the disk that was > supposed to update my $2149 Architech Developer to Multi-User. The > disk got an Uncorrectable data read error, not doubt because the Hah! That's NOTHING! We bought ISC 2.02, with TCP/IP and other goodies in November 1989. When it arrived, some of the disks that formed part of VP/ix, TCP/IP and the Text Processing system had unrecoverable read errors. We shipped the disks back to the dealer, who confirmed that they were unreadable. Guess what -- the Australian agent for ISC (who shall remain nameless, as they're hopeless!) still haven't replaced them after over a year! > 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? Yup. I used emacs to edit the login binary, just place a null byte at the start of the messages you wish to lose. Works just fine. -- Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.gen.nz