Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:00 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com>, Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? Message-ID: <200701121239.04811.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701121146001.7483@sploit.scriptkiddie.org> References: <20070111052604.BAC5D16A575@hub.freebsd.org> <E7599201-E4C7-41F8-AD2B-8094AA1C1511@mac.com> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0701121146001.7483@sploit.scriptkiddie.org>
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On Friday 12 January 2007 10:48, Lamont Granquist wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > >> Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call > >> me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical > >> expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network, > >> heck no opposable digits even or anything else for that matter, yet it > >> still managed to kill the server ;) > > > > That cat is rather fortunate the server didn't kill the cat at the same > > time. > > I haven't lived with a cat in awhile, but don't they tend to 'spray' > rather than 'stream' so that a direct line of current would not be > established from the PSU to the cat? While spray(8) may protect the cat, it is likely to invoke crash(8). When combined with dumpon(8) permanent damage may result. :-) Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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