[geeks] Selling points

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 03:56:38PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, sudo (and its ilk) is a security bug waiting for an exploit
> > (as has recently been discussed on the netbsd lists....  ;-)
> 
> You are aware of the buffer overflow (yes, a buffer overflow! Furrfu!) that
> was reported in sudo recently?

yes, i'm aware of the dangers of sudo, but i'm not giving sudo access to linux
weenies or anything.  apps people are as interested in the security and
stability as SAs are.  of course they get the "common sense security chat"
before they are added to the sudo config file, but i trust the apps people.

-brian
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