X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:53:43 -0800 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <50F5B406.8010406@cygwin.com> <50F6C647.9060502@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20121214 Thunderbird/18.0 In-Reply-To: <50F6C647.9060502@aol.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote: > I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered "rsh tim" > and found myself logged in as the head of corporate IT with root > privilege. Did you do "rm -rf /"? I remember going to Frys and seeing a mac with a bash shell window logged in as root. Guess what I did... Never leave a root bash shell open to the public... -- Andrew DeFaria As I always say "I never repeat myself" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple