Linux RedHat/Fedora get totally "pwned"

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vishalrao

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("pwned" being the kind of diction you only get from the eloquently elite)

But check out: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html and rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support

Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed.

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One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing Fedora packages.

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In connection with the incident, the intruder was able to sign a small number of OpenSSH packages relating only to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures only) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64 architecture only).
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I always get annoyed whenever a Fedora ambassadroid/marketroid/fanboid sneers at Ubuntu for this n that - like the recent OpenSSL random number entropy problem - but it looks like some Ubuntu fanboi script kiddie managed to compromise RedHat/Fedora servers. A little egg on their faces please kthxbye.
 
Heh, edited the post to highlight the "able to sign" part :ohyeah: That is some serious total pwnage. I think now any time any envious Fedora whiner tries to pass a smart comment about Ubuntu all I need to do is point them to this minor event to shut them up.

I love it how they write "only" a "small number" of OpenSSH packages were signed by the intruder...
 
Oh I wrote "looks like some Ubuntu fanboi", wishful thinking, should have been "would be cool (funny) if it turned out to be an Ubuntu fanboi"
 
I must say ,that it is not with distro ,but the server admin guys who needs to get the beatings for that !.
 
(re: "not with distro")

note that im not saying fedora sux and ubuntu rox etc. even tho i use ubuntu and i think it rox better than fedore :P. fedora is a perfectly good distro... its just that reading the fedora member blogs on the "fedora people" server you see the irritating snarky post against ubuntu now and then from a developer/contributor/ambassador.
 
fedora too improved quiet a lot in package management.currently got FC9 64 on my pc.

I use Debian Sid as primary and ubuntu hardy ,fedora 9 also on my hdd.but ,I must say ,if you think deb+apt means best package management ,go see what pacman offers(archlinux).
 
Ouch. I have used RHEL5 and even though I am no pro, I found it more secure than Windows, which is nothing new. But these hacks...lol. I wouldn't blame the distro though, it's the administrator fault.
 
lol no corporate will ever take up Ubuntu for worstations rest assured :rofl:...even if support also is made phreee !

Flame wars come on :D
 
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