On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:45, Boris B. Zhmurov wrote:
On 15.06.2004 14:20 you said the following: | The bug is classified "Gravierend" in Heise Newsticker, which I do | not fully comply with. This is a post-auth local DoS that there | exist
many of
| these days. All of those have a simple cure: userdel -r.
And what about hosting providers with thousands of clients? User can upload exploit via ftp and execute it via httpd. Internet Service Providers have to userdel -r too?
Not just "yes", but "hell, yes". For one, if you have a user/customer that would do that to your system, you don't need them, no matter how much they pay. Also, most hosting TOS/AUPs prohibit that kind of behavior. If I had a customer who did that to my system, his account would be cancelled and his name given to the other ISPs and hosting providers in town before that machine was finished rebooting. -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB