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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:14:22 -0300
From:      Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: assembly
Message-ID:  <36D1744E.C5892F52@netshell.vicosa.com.br>
References:  <36D0DE0C.50AD0AD9@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <19990222175828.F93492@lemis.com>

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So no system is secure, if you have a shell account and an assembler to
use, right ?

Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Monday, 22 February 1999 at  1:33:16 -0300, Gustavo Vieira G C Rios wrote:
> > CAn i write a program using assembly to read/write mster.passwd file
> 
> That depends on your ability.  Of course it's possible.  But why do
> that when you can write absolute binary into a file with an editor?
> 
> > i would not use any API to perform such a action!
> 
> Why not?  Anyway, even assembly uses the system API.
> 
> Greg
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