From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 7 12: 6:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4A914C4A for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA75273 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:05:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 15:05:42 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file name with questions - rm on it seg faults!!! In-Reply-To: <19991107183534.5193.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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