Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 18:58:25 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> Cc: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:21.tcpip Message-ID: <20020420155825.GB1199@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020420031459.A88998@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20020420022630.C88054@mail.webmonster.de> <20020419203037.S39174-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20020420031459.A88998@mail.webmonster.de>
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[ Moved to -chat, since this is no longer a security thing :P ]
On 2002-04-20 03:14, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> Peter Leftwich(Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com)@2002.04.19 20:50:16 +0000:
> > I always log in as root - The thinking is... rm doesn't scare me
> > one bit! :)
>
> sensing some amount of irony here, yes a new user logs in as root,
> because he got a "blank" system, with (hopefully) limited userland.
> i doesn't matter how many times you tell him "no do not log in as
> root", he will understand it when he executed his first more complex
> shell command containing "rm" ;-)
Which almost invariably is ``rm -fr /'' or similar ...
... while the Windows partitions are mounted read-write too.
Ah, you got to love this Murphy guy ;-)
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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