>For those systems that have everything on one big partition, you can often >do stuff like: > >ln /etc/passwd /tmp/<filename_generated_by_mktemp> > >and wait for /etc/passwd to get clobbered by a cron job run by root...
How would /etc/passwd get clobbered? Are you thinking that a tmp cleaner run by cron might delete /tmp/whatever (i.e., delete the hardlink you created above)? But deleting /tmp/whatever is safe; it doesn't affect /etc/passwd. I'm guessing I'm probably missing something. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
