On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: > > [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > > > > $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb > > What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / Movie
Joe Wannabe needs to learn more in order to do him self real harm. Shouldn't it be: sudo rm -rf "The Great American Novell" ? ;-) And, without testing it, I'm pretty sure that sudo rm -rf / is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be, IMHO. > > Neither is an actual security issue. > > > and the > > other thru a poorly-working (official) Debian patch to ssh. (Or was > > it SSL?) > > I don't recall this actually causing the Debian servers to be compromised. I also think don't recall a compromise. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
