Comment 24 for bug 292973

Hi Marcel,

Yes, I am familiar with the purpose of patches. :) Believe me, I completely understand where you are coming from. I admin plenty of machines myself and take security seriously.

I have already made my case to them, however it is unlikely they will do anything about it. These machines are part of a large, distributed build server farm at a big company. The setup is frail and thousands of engineers around the world depend on its uptime 24/7. They avoid touching it at all costs and since the machines are only accessible from the internal LAN, they don't get too worked up about security issues. I am a "rogue" at my job because I am probably one out of a dozen or less that don't use Windows+Exceed to do the same work. In other words, they don't care about me and I am on my own.

I've been digging through the tree of Sun patches and bugs fixed by this uber-patch and I am not clear what bug I am dealing with here. All I was asking is if anyone knew what bug I am fighting so that perhaps I could dig-in more and find a workaround like I have done the past (the whole ARGB issue, for example). If they buy the whole security angle and patch the servers, then I guess it is moot. Otherwise I will have to downgrade to hardy.

Thanks,
Russ

In any case, I