From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 11:21:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1B911886 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05004; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id LAA02318; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <003001be5e98$8af7fb20$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Gustavo Vieira G C Rios" , "Greg Lehey" Cc: Subject: Re: assembly Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:17 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios >So no system is secure, if you have a shell account and an assembler to >use, right ? You'd still have to have the proper file permissions to modify the master.passwd file. Assembly language is just a low-level programming language, not a security bypass. --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message