Re: off topic: password strategy as an ISP

[John Foster <johnf@mars.nettrek.net.au>]

On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 Martin.Bialasinski@uni-koeln.de wrote:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cat <<__EOF__
> No telnet login allowed.
> 
> ** Insert the motd here **
>  
> __EOF__
> sleep 5
> exit 0
> 

And if the remote user managed to interrupt it would they get
/bin/sh?, with EUID 0?

And what if the sleep call was suspended?

I don't think a shell script could ever be a secure shell...

John Foster


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