How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Jan 11 14:49:01 UTC 2007
Nathan Vidican wrote:
> James Long wrote:
> > Yeah, and even a user with no account or password, a screwdriver, and
> > a Mountain Dew.
>
> 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 ;)
Reminds me of this one ...
http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/fun/bruteforce-cat.jpg
Best regards
Oliver
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