On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:16:54PM +0300, Yosef Meller wrote: > > As an example to why linux is more sucure, see the latest flaw in > Firefox: it allows an attacker to create a file on your machine. This > could be used to create a batch file on windows, or a shell script in > Linux; however, on Linux shell scripts (or any other file) are not > executable by default, you have to chmod +x them.
Well, hmmm... If you can execute a binary and pass it either parameters or input, then '/bin/sh path/to/script' or '/bin/sh <(your custom input)' is basically equivalent to having an executable script. Unix has a fine tradition of not making things unnecessarily difficult. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
