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To: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>
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Subject: Re: Kernel panics when the root directory is executed
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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Scot Elliott wrote:

> This is quite scary, because we have users on this machine with no root 
> access, but they're able to halt our machine whenever they want to.  I 
> guess this would be very scary for an ISP offering shell accounts.

I dont have thish problem (not running bash though). tcsh just says
<directory>: Permission denied.

> FreeBSD Billy.poptart.org 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Sat Aug  2 00:17:32
> BST 1997     scot@Billy.poptart.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/IDE  i386  

My stable was only built 10 days after  yours...

Andrew