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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.

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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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