[Gllug] Debian / Ubuntu SSL vulnerability

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 14 May, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> >  Looking at the Ubuntu notifications it seems that they have already done
> >  much the same.  Although a worthy catch-all, the problem I see with this
> >  is that if you have a headless or remote box then applying the update
> >  could easily lock you out of it entirely.
> 
> If you have a headless remote box without a serial console, then I'd
> say you *deserve* to be locked out. Harsh, perhaps, but surely if
> you're building a system like that, you plan for all eventualities? I
> can't imagine not having serial access to any of my hosted boxen.
> 
> Tet
> 

   Not having had any need to do this, do you use a dedicated analogue
modem or a serial line provided by the service provider?

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