How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

Lamont Granquist lamont at scriptkiddie.org
Fri Jan 12 20:06:50 UTC 2007


On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote:
>> Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call
>> me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical
>> expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network,
>> heck no opposable digits even or anything else for that matter, yet it
>> still managed to kill the server ;)
>
> That cat is rather fortunate the server didn't kill the cat at the same time.

I haven't lived with a cat in awhile, but don't they tend to 'spray' 
rather than 'stream' so that a direct line of current would not be 
established from the PSU to the cat?


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