Michael Schwarz wrote:
> The most damage you can do when running anything as a non-privledged user
> is to that user's own files.
Yes, but ...
I remember a silly script I tried. It was a recursive script that was
creating a directory, then moved itself in that directory, then run again ...
and again.
The result was a deep tree of directory (thousands!) and I never manage to
delete it. It ate all free inodes on the disk partition. I tried several
remedy like debugfs, shell script or binary executables, none success. So
now, I learn to use quota to set boundaries for a user ;-)
Morality: Although it was a process running with non-priviledged rights, it
damaged the whole partition (filling and locking the free part). Be aware of
security hole!
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73 G�rard F6FGZ
