Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 11:50:18PM +, sena wrote: I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: However, writing one in C proved to be simple, and an afternoon's worth of fun. --(snip - false.c)-- int main() { return 1; } --(snip - false.c)-- 10 seconds writing

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread sena
I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: Only 3 minutes of fun? Disappointing. You've gone and blown the rest of the afternoon. Read through it, make it funnier. Imagine it in Perl. Or Befunge. Or my favorite, Rube. (extra points if you use the weasel -- I believe it's

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, sena wrote: I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: 32 bytes, huh? 24 for your source above (with spaces). Might as well compile it yourself. Or, as in C the return type of a function defaults to int, we could write: main(){return 1;} even

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], sena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: However, writing one in C proved to be simple, and an afternoon's worth of fun. --(snip - false.c)-- int main() { return 1; } --(snip - false.c)-- 10 seconds writing

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-30 Thread sena
I heard that Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote this on 30/10/00: Ah, way too big ... (snip...) Compile with cc -s -o false -nostdlib false.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cc -s -o false -nostdlib false.c false.c: In function `exit': false.c:6: warning: function declared `noreturn' has a `return'

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-29 Thread Jonathan Markevich
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:20:15PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with /bin/false. can't seem

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-29 Thread sena
I heard that Jonathan Markevich wrote this on 29/10/00: However, writing one in C proved to be simple, and an afternoon's worth of fun. --(snip - false.c)-- int main() { return 1; } --(snip - false.c)-- 10 seconds writing plus 3 minutes worth of fun is more like it... :) Oh writing

/bin/false (was Re: security questions)

2000-10-28 Thread kmself
on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: also, i noticed that some accounts which are disabled are given a shell of /bin/false: ftp:x:100:65534::/home/ftp:/bin/false tiger seemed to hate this too. i tried playing around with