UNIX source vs. binary (NOT A LEGAL ARGUMENT)

David Sherman dave at lsuc.UUCP
Tue Feb 19 12:17:37 AEST 1985


In article <1166 at sunybcs.UUCP> loverso at sunybcs.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
||I've found that a shell (sh or csh) script thats somebody's login shell can't be
||stopped or broken out of w/o logging the person out.  Therefore, the "window
||of vulnerability" is removed.

Sorry, that won't work on v7 systems, where you can't execute a shell
file with exec(2), which is what login uses (execlp, actually).

Dave Sherman
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