X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50F77DC9.7050206@tlinx.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:27:53 -0800 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin References: <50F5B406.8010406@cygwin.com> <50F6C647.9060502@aol.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > 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... --- At least not when there are criminals around. Deliberate destruction of property is a crime in all states. I HATE when I goto a computer in windows and it's locked down so you can't do anything. I want to be able to look under the hood -- which normal users are not permitted to do. So thanks for screwing over the rest of us who wouldn't do something so stupid. -- 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