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From: caa@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Charles A Anderson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.sources,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: KSHPR: prompt generator for .kshrc
Message-ID: <1045@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG>
Date: 27 Jun 89 17:59:21 GMT
References: <19817@cup.portal.com> <287@ecijmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: caa@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Charles A Anderson)
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Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul MN
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In article <287@ecijmm.UUCP> jmm@ecijmm.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
|Well you asked for it...  I hope there won't be a deluge of similar
|postings.  Anyhow, my method of determining whether I'm su'ed to root
|or not is a simple test "if [ -w /etc/passwd ]".  If that succeeds,
|you're either root or the proud owner of an insecure system.  

Won't work for me, cuz my /etc/passwd is 444.  Meaning I have to do a w!
to change it in vi but that's ok with me.
-- 
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    I'm gonna make like yesterday's lunch, down and out the back.  -me
(The above quote has been rated as gross, digusting, and tacky by my cow-
orkers at work...are you a cow orker?  Would you like to be one? Send $5
and SASEE to me for free (almost) informative (more or less) redundant (very)
information packet.  VISA and MasterCard accepted (and abused).)