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| From: | Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: hardened: setuid | ||
| Date: | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:02:26 | ||
| Message-Id: | 358eca8f0607130354u3a0d7713s30d5fe7348786921@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: hardened: setuid by James |
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| 1 | On 12/07/06, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > I have not seen any indication of comprimise. |
| 4 | > Yes the system had redhat some years ago. It's entirely possible the same |
| 5 | > partition table was used and therefore these residual files are artifacts |
| 6 | > of a previous installation. My googling did not find any thing. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Where did you find out they are redhat files? |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Have a look here: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Red_Hat_Contrib-Net__rhcn-bugs_redhat.com_.html |
| 13 | http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/linux/linux-athena.html |
| 14 | http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/athena/differences.html |
| 15 | |
| 16 | I have found that re-using partitions without zeroing them first, |
| 17 | using e.g. dd, or without making a new fs over them ends up in old |
| 18 | files being suddenly resurrected . . . |
| 19 | -- |
| 20 | Regards, |
| 21 | Mick |
| 22 | -- |
| 23 | gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |