Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door?

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door?
Date	2025-03-05 00:05 +0100
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On 2025-03-04 22:51, J.O. Aho wrote:
> On 04/03/2025 19.29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>> On 28/02/2025 17:00, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>> As Carlos and John has already pointed out, you need to execute a 
>>> binary (or script) and it's self inflicted, don't install anything 
>>> you can't install from your distros repository unless you really know 
>>> what you are doing.
>>>
>>
>> So many users are tempted to install software, using the wget workflow 
>> that directly pipes script hosted on website into a command prompt.
>>
>> It is so risky....
> 
> yes, it's risky, I do always use a distribution that has a good 
> ecosystem, so you don't have to run some script to install stuff, but 
> just use the standard package manager using the default repositories.

rpm packages contain pre/post install scripts, too. Not all the packages 
use this facility, but some have to. For example, the kernel itself, it 
has to run dracut and grub something and others.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Hank <hankrobins@notspam.uk> - 2025-02-28 08:45 +0100
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-28 13:06 +0100
    Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-02 00:38 +0000
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2025-02-28 08:09 -0600
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-02-28 18:00 +0100
    Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2025-03-04 18:29 +0000
      Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-03-04 22:51 +0100
        Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-05 00:05 +0100

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