On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Luc Verhaegen <l...@skynet.be> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:25:33AM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 13:57 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: >> >> > > It is clear that this is not a normal security breach, as this >> > commit is >> > > fully in line with the naming scheme used by fd.o. Plus, given the >> > > history of radeonhd, combined with who i think have root access, >> > makes >> > > it seem quite likely that this was simply one of the people with >> > regular >> > > root access. >> > >> >> I had noticed this appalling commit, looked around and came to the same >> conclusion. >> I had also received an e-mail alerting me about this commit. This is not >> a good use of our time. >> >> The commit should actually be removed from the repository, or at least >> reverted, >> to save other people from wasting time on this. Their wiki states that >> radeonhd is deprecated, >> which is fine, but that does not mean it should be crippled. >> >> That would be the honorable thing to do for the author of this commit. >> I make mistakes, people tell me nicely, I fix them and life goes on. >> >> Gaetan > > Still, would you really want to trust your code to freedesktop.org after > this, knowing that there's someone with root access pulling stunts like > this? > > Luc Verhaegen. > _______________________________________________ > xorg-de...@lists.x.org: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel >
It's obvious the person must be found, and regardless of whether the person is found, change the root password and only tell those who are known to be trustworthy still. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
