From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 13 15:42:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA03938 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer.duff-beer.com (mail@homer.duff-beer.com [194.207.51.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03933 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:42:39 -0700 (PDT) From: scot@poptart.org Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by homer.duff-beer.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA06306; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:42:10 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 23:42:10 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: scot@homer.duff-beer.com To: andrew@ugh.net.au cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panics when the root directory is executed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > : 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 > >