Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab

Dan Cross (cross@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 22 May 1996 13:24:16 -0400

I was under the impression that find(1) didn't follow symbolic links?
Thus, one wouldn't ``find'' /etc/passwd if there was a link to /etc
from somewhere in /tmp.

Please don't tell me that Linux (or, more precisely, GNU) broke this.  :-)

        - Dan C.