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Auteur: Arnt Karlsen
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Systemd: Once again the "not-a-bug" attitude, this time regarding a security issue
On Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:36:51 +0200, Martin wrote in message
<13758100.4C07cDyKXy@merkaba>:

> Hello.
>
> I am more and more considering finally switching to Devuan for all of
> my systems.
>
> The "not-a-bug" attitude upstream developers, especially Lennart,
> show in
>
> systemd can't handle the process previlege that belongs to user name
> startswith number, such as 0day #6237
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237
>
> and
>
> [systemd-devel] Github systemd issue 6237
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2017-July/039154.html
>
> *again* IMHO is inacceptable for security issues like this.
>
> I read in german Linux-Magazin that KDE Plasma basically works in
> Devuan Jessie…


...aaaaaand, I run it with vdev-0.1.2. ;o)

> but I am on Debian Unstable with my laptop. And there
> seem to be issues with automounting… On my Jessie-Server VM I could
> just cross-grade to Devuan Jessie, it was running with sysvinit for a
> long time anyway. My VM for the backup is Debian Stretch already.
>
> Well… maybe I finally arrive at the point where I say goodbye to
> Debian and hello to Devuan, at least for the time being.
>
> Thanks,



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