ulimit

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Mon Apr 24 14:53:29 AEST 1989


In article <100455 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher at sun.COM (John Plocher) writes:
>In all this talk about ULIMIT don't forget that there is at least one known
>bug in the AT&T SVr[23] implementation:
>
>Kids, don't do this at home.

Hmmm.  Can't wait to get to work where I CAN try it out :-)

>	% ls -l /etc/passwd*
>	-rw-r--r--  1 root            0 Apr  3 10:44 /etc/passwd
>	-rw-r--r--  1 root          439 Apr  3 10:40 /etc/passwd.old
>	% su
>	password: xxxxxxx

How'd you do that?  In the absence of a password file entry for root
will su _really_ let you in?  [ The answer in SVr[12?] is NO ]
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