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Article #1050Re: ulimit
From: John F. Haugh II
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:53
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:53
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In article <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@sun.COM (John Plocher) writes: >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. Hmmm. Can't wait to get to work where I CAN try it out :-) > % 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 How'd you do that? In the absence of a password file entry for root will su _really_ let you in? [ The answer in SVr[12?] is NO ] -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the Week:------------------- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | "When everyone else complies InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | I will too ..." UucpNet : <backbone>!killer!rpp386!jfh +------------------- -- Doug Davis --
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!texsun!letni!void!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: ulimit Message-ID: <16042@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 24 Apr 89 04:53:29 GMT References: <19516@genrad.UUCP> <1319@nusdhub.UUCP> <10075@smoke.BRL.MIL> <881@cetia4.UUCP> <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 21