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Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
From: ahuger () SECNET COM (Alfred Huger)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:52:57 -0600
On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Dunno. If your ISP was running on OpenBSD it would be pretty damn annoying. Personally, I find the constant claims that OpenBSD is more secure than FreeBSD and NetBSD annoying. We all do extensive security work. This is just another example of a fairly common situation -- in which OpenBSD has a bug that other BSDs don't. Sometimes it is the other way around, too, but you'd think from the propaganda that it was always, or even usually, OpenBSD that was the most secure system.
This is quickly becoming a pissing contest. Bugtraq is not the proper forum for this. OpenBSD has failings as do other OS's. Such is the nature of software development. Please in the future, if at all possible. Be mature enough not to take this agenda motivated discussion into improper forums.
Current thread:
- Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine, (continued)
- Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Michael Fuhr (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine David Maxwell (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Michael Fuhr (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Angelos D. Keromytis (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Perry E. Metzger (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Theo de Raadt (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Perry E. Metzger (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Theo de Raadt (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Perry E. Metzger (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Alfred Huger (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Perry E. Metzger (Jul 28)
- CERT Vendor-Initiated Bulletin VB-98.07 - OpenVMS.LOGINOUT (fwd) Phillip R. Jaenke (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Timothy J Luoma (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine David Maxwell (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Theo de Raadt (Jul 27)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Kragen (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Cy Schubert (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Peter W (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Kragen (Jul 28)
- Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine Michael Jennings (Jul 28)