On 7/07/19 7:34 AM, mick crane wrote: > As per recent post ( don't want to trash somebody's home directory ) I > was wondering what is the etiquette of sharing executable files. > I've never really thought about giving executable files to anybody but > just recently while I'm getting my bits of code to work I was thinking > "I have to be a bit careful what I put here because I might delete > something I'd be unhappy about. > And then hmmm, if I did give this to somebody else if they didn't know > what did what they might trash they're home directory.
Yes, you should be careful about what your scripts do. And it doesn't only apply to executables. I was asked for my ssh keys to give me access to a server. I obviously wasn't thinking clearly enough, and created a tar file with my authorized_keys in it. They extracted it directly into .ssh ... and overwrote all their existing keys. Mistakes on both parts :-( Richard
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