Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:51:03 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: vince@mercury.gaianet.net (-Vince-) Cc: mark@grumble.grondar.za, 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: <199606250851.BAA00894@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960625002724.21697g-100000@mercury.gaianet.net> from "-Vince-" at Jun 25, 96 00:28:34 am
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It seems that -Vince- said: > > On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Mark Murray wrote: > > > > In his home directory he places a script called "dir" that creates a > > suid shell (silently) then prints the usual "command not found" error. > > > > He then phones you, asking for support, and tries to trick you into > > running his script. Having "." in your path makes his trickery easier. > > Hmmm, that's only if we had phone support.... We don't :) but do > admins really go run a program that the user said won't run? Well, it *appears* that one of *you* did! :>
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