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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
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Subject: Re: Who's in my Directory ?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 15:58:05 GMT
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In article <8314@star.cs.vu.nl> gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) writes:
>
>I know a student around here with an "ls" shellscript in their home directory,
>which *copied your mailbox* into a subdirectory, so he could read it.

	That's *nothing* compared to what he could have done.

	I used to have a hacked up version of sh that used to have a
"set showexec" that would print the name of the program being run when
it ran it - useful for catching something like that. You only catch it
after the fact, but you can still go beat them bloody until they tell
you in detail what './ls' really did.

mjr.
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