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From: opsys at voodooland.net (Chris Watson) Subject: SSH Exploit Request On Nov 14, 2003, at 8:36 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Friday, November 14, 2003 21:10:04 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu > wrote: >> >> I'm sure I'm not the only sysadmin who's SSH'ed in to an ill box, >> decided >> a reboot was needed, and typed 'shutdown -i6 -g0 -y' (runlevel 6 to >> reboot, zero seconds grace, and don't prompt me), and instead >> realized 7 >> seconds later that what the other end *received* was '-i0 -g6 -y' >> (poweroff with 6 seconds warning), and made a bad situation worse. >> > Just curious....why wouldn't you use 'shutdown -r now'? Because that requires a non convoluted OS such as BSD. None of that -thousand -switches -from -hell -SYSV -stuff. :-) Chris Watson M.M. Bestor G. Brown #433 Wichita, KS AIM: BSDUNIX44
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