Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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. >
Right. I stand corrected. But the point about root access stands. -- Keep on rocking in a free world! ================================================================= 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]
