From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 7: 8:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guepardo.vicosa.com.br (guepardo.tdnet.com.br [200.236.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1274310F89 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:08:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br) Received: from netshell.vicosa.com.br [200.236.148.195] by guepardo.vicosa.com.br with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id A5BD2700086; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:20:29 +03d00 Message-ID: <36D1744E.C5892F52@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:14:22 -0300 From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: assembly References: <36D0DE0C.50AD0AD9@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <19990222175828.F93492@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- I use UNIX because reboots are for hardware upgrades. You use windowze because the guy on TV told you to ... Gustavo Rios - UNIX System Admin. - UIN 27456973 +---------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message