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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:39:05 +0100
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>,
	Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr>
Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd
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At 15:25 02/03/01 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote:
> >
> > > symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf
> > > to a non-existant file....throw a bunch of connections at it
> > > and watch it reboot.
>
>* Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> [010302 15:24] wrote:
> >
> > People asking me how this could be used as a local user.
> > Well i guess if you wanted to you could find something root runs
> > that writes to /tmp then umask resolv.conf
> > and echo "" > resolv.conf
> >
> > I am in no way supporting that...just answering a question.
>
>Try overwriting /dev/mem, it's much more interesting.

There are a lot of other ways:
         - reboot
         - halt
...
and the simplest of all: turn off the ON/OFF button.

cheers,
mouss


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