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- From: dv@cc-mac.nbn.com (David Vezie)
- Subject: Re: First Post
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.175617.1256@cc-mac.nbn.com>
- Organization: Computer Concepts
- References: <1992Aug14.090928.2677@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Aug16.200713.4800@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:56:17 GMT
- Approved: /etc/super.people
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- In article <1992Aug16.200713.4800@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- >In article <2crY03GO5e4p00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
- >
- >>YOU CAN USE A BACKSLASH! YOU CAN USE RM -i * ! YOU CAN RUN FSDB ON THE
- >>FILE SYSTEM! YOU CAN USE EMACS! YOU CAN USE A C PROGRAM WITH THE "UNLINK"
- >>SYSTEM CALL! YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN SHELL! YOU CAN REAM YOURSELF WITH THE
- >>BUSINESS END OF A PLUMBER'S HELPER! I DON'T CARE!! JUST DON'T POST IT
- >>ANYMORE!! I CAN'T TAKE IT!!
- >
- >ObAnnoyingQuestion: Which of these works when the strange character in
- >the name is '/'?
-
- any one that deals with the file system itself. emacs on the directory
- would also work.
-
- I remember this happening. Years ago, in the waining days of 4.1 BSD
- at school (after the final backup and before the upgrade to 4.2 BSD),
- I made a Twilight_Zone directory. In it, I made the following *files*
- (yes, even with the '/' in them):
-
- /etc/passwd /etc/super.people /bin/su /bin/sr
-
- (back then, /bin/su didn't check passwords if the user was in
- /etc/super.people, and sr was a "single root" command for people
- who were in the same file (crackers can stop drooling now -- this
- is all in the ancient past)).
-
- and a few others, I can't remember. I also linked . and .. so that
- "cd .." would keep you in Twilight_Zone, and "pwd" would show you as
- being in root. It was really like being in the Twilight Zone.
- --
- David Vezie dv@sonoma.edu,dv@xnet.ssl.berkeley.edu
-