Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bill Campbell managed to emit: > > Then there was the bug in Tandy Model 16 Xenix where one could type > ``lp *'' in the root directory, and it would actually make a link of / into > /usr/spool/lpd. Then if one tried to remove files under /usr/spool/lpd, it > removed the entire system. The only fix I found was to rename > /usr/spool/lpd and make a new directory.
Yeow. > More recently I've seen webmin under Caldera eServer 2.3 mangle the > password file, even leaving it empty. We have a script that runs from > webmin when any user admin is complete to update the radius authentication > databases. I added a section to this program that backs up /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow, but first checks the system version against the backup to see > if any admin accounts have gone missing. If it finds missing admin > accounts, it immediately restores the backups, and sends an e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to let us know Something Bad(tm) happened. Double yeow. With misfeatures like this, you don't need careless keystrokes... Kurt -- Among the lucky, you are the chosen one. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
