Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: prl@eiger.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: experiences with SunOS4.0.1 Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 88 22:23:38 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 20 Dec 88 22:25 +0100 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 82, message 16 of 18 > From: bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) ... > Here is a quick overview of most of the fixes for Sun3s: ... > yppasswd fixs [security stuff you want] Just so that you are not taken by surprise, the yppasswd fixes posted with 4.0.1 (RCS version 1.15 of yppasswdd.c) do * N O T * fix the security bug in yppasswdd. NEITHER does the later version which our local Sun office sent us (RCS version 1.16 of yppasswdd.c) when we complained about this! Peter Lamb uucp: uunet!mcvax!ethz!prl eunet: prl@ethz.uucp Tel: +411 256 5241 Integrated Systems Laboratory ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich