Sorry if this was already posted. -------- Using a stolen password, Mallory managed to log into an important server running Linux. The account was a very limited account, but Mallory knew how to cause trouble with it. Mallory installed and ran a trivial program with very odd behavior -- it quickly created and removed many different symbolic link files in the /tmp directory, using a multitude of processes. (A symbolic link file, also called a symlink, is simply a file that when accessed redirects the requester to another file.) Mallory's program kept creating and removing many different symlinks pointing to the same special file: /etc/passwd, the password file.
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