[H-GEN] 'C' problem
Robert Brockway
robert at timetraveller.org
Thu Jan 30 02:46:24 EST 2003
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Steve Williams wrote:
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> Thanks to all who responded, it was that I neede to type './a.out'. It has
> been 14 years since I did anything on a GNU/Linux/Unix box.
Timely reminder never to put . in your path. An early class of trojans
involved getting a user to cd to a particular directory and then
convincing them to call a commonly used binary. Instead (because . was
often at the beginning of their path) they would execute the trojan and
suffer the consequences.
Cheers,
-Rob
-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org ICQ: 104781119
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