Respository vandalism by root at ...fd.o

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Tue Nov 23 22:23:11 PST 2010


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:24:12PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 13:32 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > Radeonhd repo:
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/commit/?h=spigot
> > 
> > author	SPIGOT <root at jerkcity.com>	2010-11-02 04:21:14 (GMT)
> > committer	SPIGOT <root at jerkcity.com>	2010-11-02 04:21:14 (GMT)
> > commit	231683e2f111bb064125f64f2da797d744cde7fa (patch)
> > ...
> > PERHAPS BONGHITS WILL FIX MY MAKEFILE
> > Signed-off-by: SPIGOT <root at jerkcity.com> 
> > 
> > Very funny, but the person responsible forgot that maybe, this puts the 
> > whole trust in anything on fd.o at risk.
> 
> That was me.  Serious lapse in judgement on my part.  I pretty much did
> it to get a rise out of Luc; looks like I succeeded.  But it's
> indefensible, and I apologize.  I'm kind of in a bad place emotionally
> and I should know better than to act that out in public.
> 
> I've disabled my root accounts on the fd.o machines.  I don't trust me
> with them anymore either.
> 
> - ajax

I can't see why. You know tons of ways to trigger me, without 
compromising X.org or fd.o.

Luc Verhaegen.


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