[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

[Steve Litt]

Yeah, if *I'd* said it, then it would have just been the ravings of a
graybeard scared-to-learn Linux wannabe poser systemd hater.

So I let others say it. And isn't it interesting that the botched
shellscript and systemd are from the same folks, and they're the folks
who have no problem at all with bringing complexity to GNU/Linux (soon
to be systemd/Linux).

SteveT


On Sun, 20 May 2018 18:32:21 -0400
Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> A generic large tool to implement a simple task. Sounds like systemd
> to me
> 
> :-)
> 
> Of course but that requires a run on ALL machines. By simply changing
> ttl on the dhcp server to 5 minutes, waiting 24 hours, make the
> change, wait 5 minutes, test, change ttl to 24 hours.
> 
> On May 20, 2018 10:00:10 AM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> >On Thu, 17 May 2018 13:47:33 -0400
> >Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 13:12 -0400, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:  
> >> > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:46:12AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale
> >> > wrote: 
> >> In the article, they talk about servers and mysql ... who would run
> >> those on dhcp? Serious question - who and why?
> >>   
> >> > 
> >> > In networks I've administered, everything but the DHCP server and
> >> > the core routers has their (static!) addresses assigned via
> >> > DHCP.    
> >> 
> >> +1
> >> 
> >> Makes network changes easy  
> >
> >Couldn't you accomplish the same thing using Puppet, Chef or Ansible?
> >
> >
> >SteveT
> >
> >Steve Litt 
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