Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Erik Zeek 
On Tue April 25 2006 14:31, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:44:12 -0700, kashani wrote:
> > You might want to delete chmod and chown as well since files
> > could accidentally get owned to another users or have its permissions
> > changed. :-)
>
> "rm -f /sbin/init" should remove the possibility of accidents :)

I find that "rm -rf .*" works wonders for security.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to netkit-telnetd

2006-04-25 Thread Erik Zeek 
On Tue April 25 2006 14:46, John Jolet wrote:
> > I find that "rm -rf .*" works wonders for security.
>
> Now guys, someone new is going to try one of these!  :)  And we all know
> we've done that at one time or another.  Mine was "rm -fr /* filename"
>  on a running sun box. :)  during month-end processing.

Once would have been understandable, but I did mine twice (only once as 
root though).  It's fun to stare at the screen wondering why it's taken 5 
minutes to delete two hidden directories, followed by a scream of, "OH 
SH*T!" which is immediately followed by frantically pounding ctrl-c.

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