On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Avinash Thapa <acid.expl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'll report the bug via email only. > > In this, you are able to get the /etc/passwd file inside an error, this > thing looks weird to me so I thought to report you this thing. > > Just write in your terminal > bash -i '/etc/passwd' and hit enter and you'll see the passwd file is > shown as error, > > Similarly if you have root privilages so write > bash -i '/etc/shadow' > > you'll get shadow file as error. Please find the attached screenshot for > the same. :) > > Thanks, > Acid. > Well it tries to execute the file and show the lines where it gets an error, it's a useful behavior when you try to write a script. If you have read access to these files and can run bash, you can print them anyway eg: bash -c 'echo "$(</etc/passwd)" ' so it's hardly a security issue.
