John Fischer <John.Fischer at sun.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> So I can 'mv /etc/passwd' and the whole system is messed up.
> Yes, I know an extreme example that is protected by permissions.
You need the permissions to rename files in /etc and yes: UNIX
allows you to do strange thing with strange results.
But UNIX at least had a workaround for the problem and did give you root
permissions without passwd if /etc/passwd did not exist. People used this
to become root by typing "lpr -r /etc/passwd" (remove file after printing)
as user ;-)
J?rg
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