On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:29:50PM +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > The shell will prevent them from doing, say > cat /etc/passwd because the command line contains slashes, but it would > not prevent a program that read some file in /etc as part of its > operation, as what programs do on their own are outside the shell's control.
Precisely, this will not stop a user from typing :e /etc/passwd in his/her vi session. :-) -- $_=q:; # SHERWIN # 70;72;69;6e;74;20; 27;4a;75;73;74;20; 61;6e;6f;74;68;65; 72;20;50;65;72;6c; 20;6e;6f;76;69;63; 65;27;:;;s=~?(..); ?=pack q$C$,hex$1; ;;;=egg;;;;eval;;; _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
