Re: Vulnerability in sourceforge.net

["J.A. Terranson" <measl () mfn org>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:

> Really...FreeBSD comes with user nobody set to /sbin/nologin out of the
> box.

And this is bad or related how?  I really do not see the connection to
this default setting (a reasonable one) and an admin's failure to config
their web server properly.

> Maybe they should have chosen a better host OS?

What on earth does the host OS have to do with this?

> On or about 2004.07.22 07:49:53 +0000, Todd Towles (toddtowles () brookshires com) said:
>
> > Sounds like they should have configured that page a bit different...made it
> > run under a little less access...or said I say..it is a mis-configuration.

Exactly!  This is host OS independent.

-- 
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J.A. Terranson
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