strange behaviour of vi

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Jun 28 03:51:56 AEST 1990


>Yes, there is an undocumented feature that will take the first line as
>initial commands.

As others have noted, it's the first 5 lines...

>The password file should be safe since the first line should begin with
>"root:".

...and therefore it's not safe; I remember somebody at Sun being bit by
this "vi" misfeature.



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