Thinking Of Ubuntu? Think Again.

[The Question]

According to an article from Slashdot, Ubuntu "Breezy Badger" 5.10 carries a very, very serious security flaw:

Anyone who has physical access to your machine and knows where to look can read your root password.

In plain text.

 

[Number_6]

Well, since no one but my wife and me has physical access to the computer, I guess I'm safe. Presumably, they will correct this flaw in the next release?

 

[The Question]

Now that it's been identified and exposed, no doubt they will.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Fixed.

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-262-1

 

[FBI parte due]

How long did it take?

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

About three seconds, since the fix was out yesterday.

 

[Starship Coyote]

Fixed, and certainly not a reason to avoid 5.10. I'm using it right now, and it's one of the better distros on the market, IMO, once fully tricked out.

 

[Harkley]

I ordered the CDs a few days ago. gunna try it out on an old computer

 

[Starship Coyote]

They take forever to deliver those discs...that's how I got it.

Once you get it, upgrading to KDE desktop is pathetically easy though, and I recommend it since GNOME sucks ass.

 

[FBI parte due]

It's easier to just Bittorrent and then burn the CDs.

I dunno about KDE. It's too bright and shiny for my tastes.

 

[Harkley]

^I can wait for CDs. My net connection at uni won't allow P2P...

 

[FBI parte due]

You can't just lower your d/l and u/l rates?

 

[Harkley]

Nope, they've done some funky port blocking. I get around it by tunneling to my home connection, but I only use that for essential stuff.

 

[Ishcabittle]

LIKE PORN?

 

[FBI parte due]

I would just like to inform you that I've reported your spammish actions to the moderators, Ishcabittle, and that retribution will soon be coming for you indolent and self-absorbed acts of spam that threaten to destroy this very community.

BITCH.

 

[Ishcabittle]

YOU TAKE THAT BACK OR SOAK YOUR HEAD, YOUR PICK PRETTY BOY.

 

[The Question]

Couldn't he mix'n'match a little bit on that? Take that head or soak his back?

 

[Kefka]

By niggers, for niggers.

 

[FBI parte due]

By white supremacists, actually.

 

[The Question]

By white supremacists, for niggers?