2 Jan
2015
2 Jan
'15
9:14 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 06:49:14AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Ronald Natalie wrote:
Wasn't that Guy Harris? He noticed root had dot in their path and wrote
an ls that dumped core if (!getuid()) and else tried to stash away a
setuid shell only to realize that Gould had killed setuid so he had to
copy the file (/usr/lib/secure or something like that) and chmod it so
he could read it. As I recall it said "Gould makes fire breathing
secure systems" or similar.
The reason I remember all of this is I blasted gould on comp.unix-wizards
for not coming through with the prize, I thought that was lame in the
extreme.
Funny ending to that story is that I actually interviewed at Gould and when
I showed up there everyone's head was sticking out of their office to see
the asshole who had the balls to show up and ask for a job. Much to my
surprise, after an uncomfortable day of interviews, they offered me one.
Didn't take it, went to work for Lachman instead which turned out better
for me, had a blast.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
I guess y???all aren???t with the baptists.
At an early one, when Gould first came out, we social-engineered their
booth-marketoid into giving us root access; the buggers never did pay the
bounty, claiming that we'd cheated. Well, yeah...