Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:05:42 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file name with questions - rm on it seg faults!!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911071501150.75101-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <19991107183534.5193.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, skalir scalar wrote: : some fool on my system which I have removed but not his home : directory had this in it: : : (root@hidden)[hidden]% ls -a : ?YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE!? . .. : (root@hidden)[hidden]% rm -Rf *YOUR* : Segmentation fault (core dumped) : : so how the fuck can I remove it? : : thx! Hardly seems security-related. Would have been much better asked in -questions, and sans profanity (it sure doesn't seem like a situation where profanity is called for.) First of all, since touch '?YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE!?' creates this file, it's logical to presume that rm '?YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE!?' would also remove it (which it did). But I had no problems with rm *YOUR* either. I didn't try -Rf because that was silly; there were no permissions problems requiring the force flag, and being a file recursively deleting it seemed rather silly as well. I would wager that your segfault came as a result of an rm binary built at some point on a machine with faulty memory. Mine came from 3.3-STABLE as of a week or two ago and had no such problem. Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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