RE: Lindows Issues

From: McAllister, Andrew (McAllisterAat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 08:34:54 PDT

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An article in InfoWorld yesterday said that the Lindows user defaults to root privs (if not actually root). I don't have a copy to verify, maybe you can? That alone seems like enough of a security problem to me.

Andrew McAllister
University of Missouri

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> From: sec daddy [mailto:secdaddybat_private]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: vuln-devat_private
> Subject: Lindows Issues
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> Has anyone done research on the security of Lindows? 
> There appear to be application level exploits with MS
> programs that run on Lindows, consistent with Windows.
>  I'm more curious about O/S level exploits.
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