From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] File server for NT
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:26:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305160824300.9790-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305160206.h4G265509599@augusta.math.psu.edu>
On Thu, 15 May 2003, Dan Cross wrote:
> Is having dot at the *beginning* of the path really that great
> of an idea? I've always wondered what was up with that.
it's great if you're trying to social engineer somebody on Unix, right?
Sometimes it even wins you a free TV.
(For those who remember the Gould (I think) booth at one of the Unix
conventions long ago ... root had a path with '.' at the front, and
breaking in was just a matter of smooth-talking the sysadmin into cd-ing
somewhere and typing 'ls')
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-16 14:26 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-16 0:28 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-16 0:28 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-05-16 1:04 ` William Josephson
2003-05-16 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2003-05-16 6:25 ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-16 13:46 ` rog
2003-05-16 13:20 ` Sam
2003-05-16 14:26 ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-05-16 15:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-05-16 16:02 ` Dan Cross
2003-05-19 9:46 ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-16 16:08 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-16 16:17 ` ron minnich
2003-05-16 22:07 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-05-16 23:32 ` northern snowfall
2003-05-16 22:37 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-05-16 3:53 Andrew Simmons
2003-05-16 5:00 ` William K. Josephson
2003-05-16 6:03 ` William K. Josephson
2003-05-16 11:38 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-16 12:55 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-19 9:45 ` Andrew Simmons
2003-05-16 13:43 ` rog
2003-05-16 9:22 Keith Nash
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