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GoDaddy FC4 Dedicated Servers updated with a RHEL4 kernel, and other intrusion into MYside of their domain...

08 September, 2007 01:50

Remember my post not too long back talking about Fedora Core 4 updated packages and it's availability?  I also asked a question in that post about the method in which GoDaddy would push these updates if they decided to take over Core 4 package security updates.

I will start by describing my first suprise after logging into the server.  BASH now has the --color alias.  This didn't hit me at first, but then I remember being too lazy to change the environment variable for the superuser.  I just thought this was odd and carried on.

I just got turned on to htop, a replacement for top.  After firing it up I noticed that the virtual server farm got a downgrade in memory, now only 6GB, 6GB swap, and 4 2.8Ghz Xeon processors.  So wow, I was moved to a server and off of the farm.  This is all right I thought, not knowing about other changes.

I did a uname -a and noticed I was no longer using a fc4 kernel, but instead a RedHat enterprise 4 2.6 kernel, of all the chips in the bag.  I was now thinking, this is a little weird.  They didn't send me an e-mail or any type of notification.

Now knowing this, and noticing I have shell color, I knew they accessed my filesystem without my permission or with notice.  I started to get a little pissed and decided to look around a bit more.

I fired up yum to check some versions and noticed after trying to do an update for shits and giggles (I fried the repositories GPG files for direct from Fedora updates and was too lazy to fix it and decided to compile everything from source from then on, because of the update issue), and it updated three repositories, which just wasn't possible.

Well, I didn't believe it back at my last post, but they took over package updates for fc4.  Now I was pissed and weirded out at the same time.  Again they accessed my filesystem to make the required mirror url changes directing them to GoDaddy's servers.

I then browsed the three repositories they took over: core, extras, and there very own updates-released.

I decided to play with updating a package I had installed, when I then noticed, with stars falling from the floor (how odd), that they did a system wide upgrade with these new repository sources.

I am going to go get drunk now, this will be touched upon much more when I cool down.

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