Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys

Re:Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys by canofbars on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:59AM (#25844546)

Its not that they still had python 2, its that the binary "python" referred to python 2 on ubuntu (it might even still be like this) while other distros had it pointed to python 3.

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Re:Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys by josefx on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:17AM (#25844645)

Given that python versions are incompatible by design you should probably explicitly refer to the version your code supports. At least that is my takeaway from this mess.

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Re:Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys by stretchcat on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:41AM (#25844812)

This whole situation is a bad trap for novices, given how many tutorials, class slides, etc ask students to copy/paste various invocations of pip and python that may or may not work verbatim on their distro.

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Re:Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys by moistbar on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:22PM (#25852159)

Breaking stuff is the first step towards learning to fix stuff.

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Re:Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys by eznzt on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:27AM (#25846140)

It's complicated: https://lwn.net/Articles/780737/

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