Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ls -A Message-ID: <17116@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 9 Oct 89 17:36:35 GMT References: <15@minya.UUCP> <14611@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Oct6.201107.9465@eci386.uucp> <1989Oct7.032907.27496@rpi.edu> <1989Oct8.212100.12355@rpi.edu> <6468@ficc.uu.net> <602@buster.irby.com> <6470@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Distribution: na Organization: TrishTrash Readers, Inc. Lines: 33 In article <6470@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <602@buster.irby.com> rli@buster.irby.com (Buster Irby) writes: >>Sorry Peter, but you just flunked your Unix Wizards Test! ... >Yes, I know that. But in practical terms '.??* *' is good enough, and a >lot easier to type. I can't recall ever seeing a file that would match >'.?'. The most common name for a command to give a user quick and easy password free access to root is '.s'. I've seen this same scheme, a '.', followed by a single character, used to name all manner of files people aren't supposed to see. % ls -l /usr/jfh/src/c/.s.c -rw-r--r-- 1 jfh root 142 Oct 3 13:43 /usr/jfh/src/c/.s.c Compiled this becomes '.s'. % ls -la /mnt total 36 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 64 Oct 3 13:38 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 512 Oct 9 08:48 .. -rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 13719 Oct 3 13:44 .s -rw-r--r-- 1 jfh root 59 Oct 3 13:38 .s.c Hmmm. You flunked -really- bad this time. -- John F. Haugh II +-Things you didn't want to know:------ VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | The real meaning of MACH is ... InterNet: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | ... Messages Are Crufty Hacks. UUCPNet: {texbell|bigtex}!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------