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- netcat for Debian
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-
- netcat has been compiled with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE turned on. I do
- not believe this is as much of a security hole as the author makes it
- out to be, *if* you know what you're doing (but then, if you didn't,
- you'd still be using telnet ;-)). Since the spawned program will run
- as whatever user started netcat, don't use -e as root. You have been
- warned, so if some cracker breaks into your system due to your own
- stupidity, don't blame me.
-
- A symlink to the netcat binary called 'netcat' has been installed.
- However, the canonical name is still 'nc'. If you use netcat on other
- systems, it will probably only be installed as 'nc', so keep this in
- mind when writing scripts.
-
- -- Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:38:10 -0400
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