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Re: Bug in cron postinst



On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:33:26AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:
> 
> >     for ct in * ; do
> >         chown $ct:crontab $ct
> >     done
> [...]
> And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun.

That command line has nothing to do with home directories, and doesn't look
anything up in the passwd file (chown does internally, but I don't think you
can do anything harmful).

-- 
 - mdz



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