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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news From: MIT (MIT) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to configure network under FreeBSD Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 08:15:37 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4da3dn$7vb@news.voicenet.com> References: <4zF8wkoYzg8L084yn@hntp2.hinet.net> <4cr4qh$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4d25np$c8o@news.voicenet.com> <4d3eut$cc3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <4d3fs5$1bsg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: philly263.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) wrote: >naughty_user% cat > /tmp/ks >#!/bin/sh >rm -rf $HOME >^D >naughty_user% chmod 755 /tmp/ks >you% cd /tmp >you% ks # oops! a typo. Actually you wanted 'ls' ><disk starts making some noise...> ><you start making some noise...> >So never put . in your PATH. this would suck, but there are thousands of ways to trash your system with the root account. it's best to avoid it whenever possible.