* [9fans] today's quiz @ 2008-02-26 20:51 ron minnich 2008-02-26 20:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi 2008-02-26 21:20 ` don bailey 0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs well you all did very well on the 'why bash doesn't run with setuid bit' so I thought some more fun was in order . I svn clone the gcc compiler tree. how big is it? ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 20:51 [9fans] today's quiz ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 20:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi 2008-02-26 20:59 ` ron minnich 2008-02-26 21:20 ` don bailey 1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Explain what you mean by it - the source code, the binaries, or both? On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:51 PM, ron minnich wrote: > well you all did very well on the 'why bash doesn't run with setuid > bit' so I thought some more fun was in order . > > I svn clone the gcc compiler tree. how big is it? > > ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 20:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 20:59 ` ron minnich 2008-02-26 21:06 ` Pietro Gagliardi 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote: > Explain what you mean by it - the source code, the binaries, or both? source only. ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 20:59 ` ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 21:06 ` Pietro Gagliardi 2008-02-26 22:01 ` ron minnich 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs And which repository - the trunk? On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Pietro Gagliardi > <pietro10@mac.com> wrote: >> Explain what you mean by it - the source code, the binaries, or both? > > source only. > > ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 21:06 ` Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 22:01 ` ron minnich 2008-02-26 22:14 ` Pietro Gagliardi 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 22:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote: > And which repository - the trunk? sure ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 22:01 ` ron minnich @ 2008-02-26 22:14 ` Pietro Gagliardi 2008-02-27 21:26 ` hiro 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs The bleeding-edge, then, would be around 1095600 kilobytes. However, I don't have subversion on Plan 9, and I'm using my Mac OS X, so directory sizes may be different. How could one stand to get the whole damn thing? I needed to modify one, in a zip, to get gcc built for ELF binaries so I could compile kernels on Mac OS X. I don't want to risk the nightmare of building GCC on Plan 9 anymore! :-P On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:01 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi > <pietro10@mac.com> wrote: >> And which repository - the trunk? > > sure > > ron ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 22:14 ` Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-27 21:26 ` hiro 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: hiro @ 2008-02-27 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs What a coincidence. Just today i participated in a "Linux Network Administrator" course. I just went there for the heck of it, not to learn anything. I was surprised though, about the amount i did learn. For example I learned about how... * gcc * Kde * Bash * Suse * Gnu in general * Linux in general * "Linux Network Administrators" all suck ass. One of the biggest highlights was definitely how the mentor tried to compile gcc. I was already flooding the machine with ssh login attempts at this time, because some random PAM feature showed us on the big screen, that he was changing his root password to a word from the directory. He did that to prevent us accessing the machine any more, because we were doing funny stuff with his account after someone got that password yesterday. I was waiting for the directory attack to finish for two hours, but the machine was really slow with that compiler still running. But I got access to the mentor's ftp in an other lame way and changed plans: Shortly afterwards I could see him type su, which executed my script in ~/bin/. He wrote my ssh key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys with sudo and went on showing us how to configure the nfs server to be "secure". Everything got really funny. I made a loop containing "killall konsole; sleep 360" and interfered with other kde windows in interesting ways. That is of course annoying if you are trying to compile gcc in a konsole. He sadly started X as root then, forcing me to try that vmsplice exploit. Of course it compiled in a second or so. I played around a little, tested how fit the mentor was with faults in X configs and just before the stupid course ended, I finally froze everything in this worthy condition to prove that shell dos from the other thread was working. Strangely csh, zsh, csh, tcsh, and even bash were all not vulnerable. Only zsh proved itself capable of this great feature. Conclusions: Linux is not designed for Network Administration. This would not have happened with Plan 9 from Bell Labs! Does anyone know other interesting things to try in the rest of the week? Or should I rather use my time there to learn more about plan9 and inferno?*g* -- hiro ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] today's quiz 2008-02-26 20:51 [9fans] today's quiz ron minnich 2008-02-26 20:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi @ 2008-02-26 21:20 ` don bailey 1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: don bailey @ 2008-02-26 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ron minnich wrote: > well you all did very well on the 'why bash doesn't run with setuid > bit' so I thought some more fun was in order . > > I svn clone the gcc compiler tree. how big is it? > Bigger than an elephant - smaller than the sun. D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHxIKiyWX0NBMJYAcRAoDOAKCagV3T97sTm30kO+Txrj7VxEPSugCeLNoX dBbzX1luHdMi5q7vLV1enug= =mV9i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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