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Re: Man, su ,and the pebcak virus.



Steve Przepiora wrote:
> It seems to much analyzation was going on, but if you look carefully at the 
> original post the user typer man without any options, man then asked which 
> man page you wanted, exited and gave a shell prompt back. It didn't ask a 
> question and wait for an answer. The user then type su, thinking it was a 
> question and man was prompting for an answer. Well as we all know if you type 
> su at a command prompt without args your asked for root's password.

yes

Congratulations!  You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare
hands!  (Unbelievable, isn't it?)


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