That's just a different variant of an old shell "hack": drop a program named "test" somewhere where root might run a shell script.
Which is why root's path no longer includes the current directory, and these days nothing outside the system directories. On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:37 PM ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 06/14/2018 10:30 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > In short, pragmas are all-same-case "use" names; instead of loading > > code, they tell the compiler to change its behavior. > > > > The MONKEY-* pragmas generally control various kinds of unsafe or > > dangerous behavior, including direct access to the mechanisms underneath > > / "supporting" Rakudo and things like EVAL. Other all-uppercase names > > also generally represent "dangerous" actions or options. > > > > There are a few pragmas that are all lowercase instead of all uppercase; > > they also change the compiler's behavior, but are safer than the > > all-uppercase ones. "use lib" is one of them. (This is why modules are > > generally mixed-case names.) > > > Thank you! > > Speaking of dangerous, go find a perl program being run by root, > inject some code into one of its modules, and ... > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
