On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Customer Service wrote:
> I was reading a reply to a question this morning that stated that the open()
> call is a big security hole because someone could put in ";rm -rf ." as the
> value for $email.
> What does ";rm -rf ." do? Why is it so dangerous?
rm -rf deletes everything from the current directory and all
sub-directories below it recursively. It's a Unix command, and in Unix
also, you can run multiple commands sequentially by separating them with a
semi-colon.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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