Debian Locks Out Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 13, 2006 @03:24PM from the in-the-name-of-safety dept.

daria42 wrote in with an update to an earlier story about a Debian server that was compromised. He explains: "The Debian GNU/Linux project has discovered a compromised developer account was used to gain access to a server compromised this week. A local kernel vulnerability was then used to gain root access. Due to this, a number of developers with weak passwords have been locked out of their system accounts." To be fair, they'll most likely be let in once everything's back to normal. Of course, they'll probably need to set safer passwords too.

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slashdot biased ?? naaaah by cosminn · 2006-07-13 17:42 · Score: 1, Troll

Some lady has a weak password and her Windows box gets owned, MS sucks, Windows blows (now the fact that she _does_ run as an Administrator doesn't help).

_developers_ working for one of the most popular open source projects have weak passwords, there is a _kernel_ exploit, and people defend it still.

FYI I run Linux, OSX and Windows on my machines, but common...why can't we all just get along and admit there are problems with software regardless of the company, mdoel etc. ::waking back up to reality::