Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (116 mails)

[Christian Boltz <suse-security@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Freitag, 23. September 2005 16:47 schrieb trainier@xxxxxxxxxx:
> It's my understanding the rbash is just a symbolic link to bash.
> To find out, ls -lah `which rbash`
>
> My output is: lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Dec  1  2004
> /usr/bin/rbash -> ../../bin/bash

Sure - but this doesn't explain why it behaves wrongly if used as login 
shell.

Please note that many programs [1] have a different behaviour when $0 
(the program name or symlink name) differ. 

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Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] examples: 
    bzip2 / bunzip2 / bzcat
    gzip / gunzip / zcat
    fontlinge_dupe / fontlinge_reunion ;-)
-- 
> [lost password] Not that i know much of encrypted FS's, but id say you
> are pretty lost by then. Unless you can brutecrack the encryption with
> some forensics software...
Start looking for post-it notes near the console....
[> Antun Balaz and Tom Knight in suse-security]