[olug] Theo can bite me. [or "OpenSSH Vulnerability"]

[Brian Wiese]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:20:47 -0500 (CDT)
"Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm at midwestlinux.com> wrote:

|On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Christopher Cashell wrote:
|
|> As far as I can tell, the only real reason that Theo didn't release
this
|> fix sooner, was so that he could ram his Privilege Separation feature
in
|> OpenSSH >= 3.3 down our throats. While I think this is a good feature
in
|> the long run, I seriously dislike running a program, especially one
like
|> ssh, that was released less than a week ago, on a production server.
|> Especially when there are known bugs with it. I doubt all of these bugs
|> have been fixed in OpenSSH 3.4.
|
|Yeah - he has ben getting worse lately - probably due to the same envy
|that RMS seems to display so well... ;-}

I don't think envy is the proper word, perhaps 

=) Ok, RMS, you love him or you hate him I guess is how it goes.

I'm up for calling this the Omaha GNU/Linux Users Group. 
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0520.rms.html

It would be more accurate (linux = kernel), which is what we should shoot
for, but it may also be a bit confusing to some.. oh well, isn't it
already! ha! ;) -jk

I was actually just engaged in this discussion because everyone I talk to
at work who has used GNU/Linux says they use/or have tried "Linux 7.2" or
"Linux 6.2"  :-D  ... too funny! and also Too Sad!!!!  Now if they said
they use "Linux 2.4.18" I'd pat them on the back!

But he is da man who gave us what we're possibly running right now, a free
OS.  Torvalds didn't do it himself, RMS started this whole thing with his
hippie-ish idealistic Free Software Foundation.  I love it.  There's been
tons of good debate on this in the past, I hope you all get a chance to
look it up and make an opinion of your own.

kinda the debate:  
http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0508.rms.html
his reasonable stance:   http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html 

Honestly RMS is a brilliant man, and in the end to me, its just about
giving credit where its due and saying what you mean/meaning what you
say... words have meaning.  I also respect "hackers" in the true sense.  
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html

ok, enough, im done.


  Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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