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Article #1055Re: ulimit
From: Greg Woods
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 00:50
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 00:50
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In article <16042@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>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:
>>
>> % ls -l /etc/passwd
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Apr 3 10:44 /etc/passwd
>> % 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 ]
Ah, so much for the good old days (BSD4.? on vax) when we used to trick
various daemons into zapping /etc/passwd so that we could login as root.
--
Greg A. Woods.
woods@{{tmsoft,utgpu,gate,ontmoh}.UUCP,utorgpu.BITNET,gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU}
+1-416-443-1734 [h], +1-416-595-5425 [w] Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!lsuc!mnetor!tmsoft!woods From: woods@tmsoft.uucp (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: ulimit Message-ID: <1989Apr25.005038.26621@tmsoft.uucp> Date: 25 Apr 89 00:50:38 GMT References: <19516@genrad.UUCP> <1319@nusdhub.UUCP> <10075@smoke.BRL.MIL> <881@cetia4.UUCP> <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <16042@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Reply-To: woods@tmsoft.UUCP (Greg Woods) Organization: G.A.W. Consulting Lines: 20