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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Major strcmp bug under BSD 2.0?
Date: 9 Jun 1995 01:20:27 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3r87kr$bbo@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3qfn52$188j@troy.la.locus.com> <3qvs1d$oj6@park.uvsc.edu> <3r0l05$58c@agate.berkeley.edu> <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu> <id.M4KK1.Q5F@nmti.com>
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
] In article <3r26u8$84k@park.uvsc.edu>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
] > So, in the special case of a failure that specifically targets
] > ld.so (I suppose it, for some reason, has worse karma than than
] > init, sh, and all the other programs in /sbin, for the sake of
] > argument 8-))
]
] Yes, it is worse karma. If I "rm /bin/sh" I can still run commands that
] aren't scripts. If I "rm ld.so" I can't run anything. And just about
] anything else I delete will impact me less than /bin/sh.
This is why Sun, at least, has what they call a "miniroot" install,
where you put in the disk, it installs the "miniroot" binaries not
related to configuration, overwriting/creating the bad/missing
binaries that have been targeted by your selective file system
sniper, and you're done.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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