On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:57:23PM +0000, thomas lakofski wrote: > Since I've not had any response yet, I thought I'd give a demonstration of how > nasty this is: > > Script started on Mon Jan 8 17:48:23 2001 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/etc/shadow > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping localhost > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes > > --- localhost ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fping localhost > /etc/shadow: line 1: bad command `root:<censored>:11063:0:99999:7:::' > > [snip]
Most weird. I get this behaviour when running through a setuid root strace, but I don't get the error messages (and hence the content of /etc/shadow) when I don't use strace. I'm still running potato. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/