Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-22 Thread Johannes Rohr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: [...] > > cat /dev/zero > /tmp/foobar [...] > I don't need the anonymous account to hose your system this way. > > Do you log incoming network connections of any kind? Then I can fill > up your log. > > This is assuming that I'm not clever eno

Emacs21 in X

2002-12-22 Thread Johannes Rohr
Hello, has anyone of you managed to launch the One True Editor under X in current GNU/Hurd, i.e. without "-nw"? When I try, it gives me a "fatal error (11)" and dumps core. I've filed a bug against emacs21 some months ago. So far there was no response. Am I the only one having this problem? Or i

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >How do you access this `login' shell from remote? > > > > See the login> prompt when you login? That is the login shell, it is > > just a normal shell that is running as an anonymous user (see the

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
But even the anonymous user can to something like cat /dev/zero > /tmp/foobar I don't know, if this matches your definition of "security issues" but it's an effective way to make the box unusable. A anonymous user has by default the same rights as "other users" if the anonymous user

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:45:17AM +0700, Budi Rahardjo wrote: > > > I was thinking of creating a guest account for people to look around > > > and get a feel of a live GNU/Hurd machine. > > > > As the login program is really a shell, you don't necessarily need an > > account for guests : > > Oh

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd on the net?

2002-12-22 Thread Johannes Rohr
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >How do you access this `login' shell from remote? > > See the login> prompt when you login? That is the login shell, it is > just a normal shell that is running as an anonymous user (see the > output of ids). > >Is there a known security is