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Article #1040Re: ulimit
From: John Plocher
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 20:44
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 20:44
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In all this talk about ULIMIT don't forget that there is at least one known bug in the AT&T SVr[23] implementation: Kids, don't do this at home. login: guest password: xxxxx % su password: xxxxxxx # cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old # exit % ulimit 0 % passwd old password: xxxxx new password: yyyyy Please retype new password: yyyyy % ls -l /etc/passwd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Apr 3 10:44 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root 439 Apr 3 10:40 /etc/passwd.old % su password: xxxxxxx # cp /etc/passwd.old /etc/passwd Note that the password file is now gone - aren't we glad we saved a copy? :-) The vendors out there may have this fixed in their versions by now... -John Plocher
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!oliveb!sun!sally!plocher From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: ulimit Message-ID: <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 21 Apr 89 20:44:34 GMT References: <19516@genrad.UUCP> <1319@nusdhub.UUCP> <10075@smoke.BRL.MIL> <881@cetia4.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: plocher@sun.COM (John Plocher) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 29