From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a challenge
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:03:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE5C7177-9C44-40E4-BD14-1699581503A2@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D245B709-0614-4DFF-A5C2-1AA3FC65CDF6@mac.com>
Nope.
On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> I don't have Linux, but I'll see if Mac OS X has that vulnerability.
>
> On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:53 PM, ron minnich wrote:
>
>> here is a challenge. I realize it's linux but I think this is the
>> right group to ask anyway; I think you'll appreciate the humor in it.
>> So far few I have talked to have gotten it.
>>
>> There is a file, called /bin/bash.
>>
>> You are allowed to do this as root.
>> cp this file to /tmp. Do something to it to make it so that, when you
>> are not root, you can run the file in /tmp and get a root shell.
>>
>> Don't assume the obvious. And please don't post "that's trivial"
>> until
>> you have actually done it.
>>
>> ron
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-22 17:53 ron minnich
2008-02-22 17:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-22 18:03 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-02-22 17:59 ` john
2008-02-22 18:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-22 18:33 ` ron minnich
2008-02-22 18:57 ` lucio
2008-02-22 20:02 ` Charles Forsyth
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