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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: The Internet Virus--Another issue
Message-ID: <6624@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 1 Dec 88 04:53:58 GMT
References: <17849@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <4470010@hpindda.HP.COM> <1026@ccnysci.UUCP>
Reply-To: wagenr@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <1026@ccnysci.UUCP> dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes:
>...
>But there is really more to this than sendmail debug.  After a bit of
>fussing I got adb to fix sendmail on the Celerity.  I haven't seen a
>method for using adb to fix fingerd and ftpd.
>...

Fixing ftpd and fingerd happens by replacement! There were postings in
comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes and other newsgroups. ftpd needs three little changes
to run under Ultrix, too. And if you're installing fingerd as setuid/setgid
to nobody/nobody, you're pretty safe with these two guys, I think.

-- 
Juergen Wagner		   			gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
						 wagner@arisia.xerox.com