Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:42:10 +0100 (BST) From: scot@poptart.org To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panics when the root directory is executed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970913234106.6304A-100000@homer.duff-beer.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970914043900.9830K-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>
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Yeah.. it only appears to happen with bash-2. But the point is that the kernel should not attempt to execute a directory, even if a shell sends the exec call one. Scot. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott scot@poptart.org Tel: +44 (0)181 9322042 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > 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 > >
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