Respository vandalism by root at ...fd.o

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Nov 23 15:36:58 PST 2010


Alan Cox wrote:
>> It's on a separate branch, not master.   (Doesn't mean it's right, just
>> that it's not actually going to cripple anything or waste time for anyone
>> who doesn't ask for it.)
> 
> And how many other un-noticed commits did this person make ? Until you
> know that you have to assume a complete compromise.

Understood, but you'll also understand that's something we have to ask the
freedesktop.org admins to investigate.   Like most X.Org developers, I
can't even login to the server hosting git other than with the restricted
shell used for git pushes.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System




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