(OT) Re: KDE3

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on April 18, Bill Campbell managed to emit:
> 
> Then there was the bug in Tandy Model 16 Xenix where one could type
> ``lp *'' in the root directory, and it would actually make a link of / into
> /usr/spool/lpd.  Then if one tried to remove files under /usr/spool/lpd, it
> removed the entire system.  The only fix I found was to rename
> /usr/spool/lpd and make a new directory.

Yeow.

> More recently I've seen webmin under Caldera eServer 2.3 mangle the
> password file, even leaving it empty.  We have a script that runs from
> webmin when any user admin is complete to update the radius authentication
> databases.  I added a section to this program that backs up /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow, but first checks the system version against the backup to see
> if any admin accounts have gone missing.  If it finds missing admin
> accounts, it immediately restores the backups, and sends an e-mail to
> support at celestial.com to let us know Something Bad(tm) happened.

Double yeow. With misfeatures like this, you don't need careless
keystrokes...

Kurt
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