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@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
