[plug] Version 2.0 of Novell Evolution to be integrated with Exchange Connector

[Dean Holland]

For those running Fedora there's a SRPM available for Ximian Connector.

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1590

Using it now with Evolution 1.4.5 and it's working great!

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:20, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 10:41, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 May 2004 21:21, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > > Open Source! Party on!
> 
> > > Just read the download instructions, and I'm SCARED!
> > >
> > > http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/download.html
> > >
> > > 	Open a terminal window.
> > > 	Using the su command, become superuser (root).
> > > 	Type the following command or cut and paste it into your terminal:
> > > 	wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh
> 
> > > You DEFINITELY don't want to do that on a production box.
> 
> > not that you would be running evolution at all on a server.
> 
> Server? Who said anything about a server?
> And maybe you do if you have diskless clients using that server.
> 
> > it would presume x11
> 
> Any _production_ box (and those connected to it) can be easily
> compromised if you let just anybody execute arbitrary instructions
> as root on that machine.
> 
> Not only do you put your production environment at risk, you also
> open up your network to the whole world. It totally defeats and
> potentially bypasses just about all firewalling measures. The
> instructions invite you to browse the Internet as the root user.
> 
> The "convenience" doesn't outweigh the potential risks.
> 
> I have enough problems with root permissions when I'm at the
> keyboard.
> 
> Download the rpms manually, check the checksums against a trusted
> source and install manually if it appears kosher.