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Message-ID: <a8a90fab-58af-da5e-2697-e17ef034e906@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:27:17 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
Pali Rohár
<pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc: Ben Tasker <ben@...tasker.co.uk>
Subject: Re: systemd fails to parse user that should run
service
On 07/ 5/17 01:03 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:28, Ben Tasker wrote:
>> Honestly, I think upstream have done an *awful *job of handling it so far
>> (and it's far from the only example of Poettering taking the not-a-bug
>> approach questionably). Their issues do have a habit of attracting trolls,
>> but I think sometimes their definition of troll expands to include anyone
>> who doesn't agree with them.
>
> The worst is that fact that discussion about this problem was locked in
> upstream bugtracker.
Honestly, given the level of flaming and trolling that happens on issues
like this, locking the report is the only sane option I can see once
everyone started piling on. Forcing FOSS maintainers to accept infinite
amounts of shitposting is a horrible way to reduce security by burning
out all FOSS maintainers quickly and leaving software abandoned.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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