On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:43:56PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Ethan Benson wrote: > > its not, it provides you NO extra security whatsoever, and will break > > many many things. > > It breaks a fair number of scripts that script-kiddies use, and as > such it is somewhat useful. 1: if your system is vulnerable to script kiddies then admin needs to be taken out back and beaten with a large LART. 2: if the script kiddie even has 2 tenths of a percent of clue he will figure out how to move the file somewhere else, or use my earlier mentiond ld//bin/sh method of execution. its security through obscurity IMO, and a waste of time. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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