This week’s news about the "Looney Tunes flaw" highlighted a condition which can allow a local user to access root privileges from the command line. Part of the RL Security team's task is to have mitigation strategies ready for such cases - reporting vulnerabilities and suggesting fixes upstream, and also writing our own extra packages.

This week, the Security SIG has published our extra packages and formalized a wiki: https://rockylinux.org/news/security-sig-update/ #looneytunables #securityupdate #glibc

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 Red-framed windows on 19th century stone buildings in County Cork, Ireland. Spotted by a RL team member during the Flock to Fedora community event in August. #flocktoireland #Fensterfreitag #windowfriday #jameson #distillerytour #fedora

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 Celebrating 40 years of the OG(nu)! Rocky traces its roots to this, and in fact can be technically referred to as "GNU plus Rocky Linux." 

Happy birthday to GNU and kudos to the team behind the free software movement. https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/ 

 📸 Need to backup your Rocky Linux servers? Run -rsnapshot. It works well, is super fast, and keeps a running backup that you can restore from easily. https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/backup/rsnapshot_backup/ Side note: If you happen to run into any errors in this procedure, let us know so we can improve the docs. #documentation #excellence #rsnapshot #tutorialtuesday #howtoguide

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 You can migrate your systems to Rocky Linux from CentOS, CentOS Stream, RHEL, AlmaLinux, or Oracle Linux, using this handy tool called migrate2rocky. https://docs.rockylinux.org/guides/migrate2rocky/ #documentation #migrate2rocky #tutorialtuesday #howtoguide

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 Fun Friday: We spotted this sign in Columbus last week, at OLF Conference. Also saw several dad joke tees walking around the event. What meme or joke has been burning a hole in your brain this week? #rockycommunity #funfriday

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