[PLUG] where does Red Hat start x?

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Tue Dec 30 14:37:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:12:14PM -0800, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > No -- much more subtle -- tell someone to erase all their custom
> > configuration settings using "rm -rf .*"
> >
> > MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
> >
> > (I'm not laughing at erasing configuration settings, btw.)
> 
> Isn't there a safeguard against this now?
> 
> jbrelin at loyale:~$ strings /bin/rm|grep "cannot remove \`"
> cannot remove `.' or `..'
> 
> So what invokes this, exactly?

Exactly as you said -- e.g., defanging a compromised configuration
environment in the root homedir on a Solaris system where such
safeguards aren't present. ;-) Or using older GNU rm's.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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