Ubuntu shows updates / security updates on shell logins

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 4 20:17:34 UTC 2009



On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> said:
>> i don't think it is a security risk. Or rather - if it is then the rpmdb
>> should not be readable by non-root users.
>
> If knowing installed versions are a security risk, then so is "uname -r"
> and almost any command that takes "-v" to display the version.

right.

-sv




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