Subject: Re: which init? (Was Re: HEADS UP: fully dynamic linked system now the default)
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/2002 17:46:43
In message <Pine.NEB.4.44.0209301443290.26007-100000@lothlorien.starwolf.com>,
Greywolf writes:
>On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
># I won't have a chance to try this, but I suspect that if you made this
># /sbin/init it would work:
>#
># #!/bin/ksh
>#
># exec /bin/ksh -i $* >/dev/console 2>&1 </dev/console
>#
>
>...with the exception that when you do things like that, the keyboard
>signals get somewhat ..um... "lost".
>
This is an attack; details like that don't matter as much...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)