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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers IRC and Root Post 60821 by locustfurnace on Saturday 22nd of January 2005 12:41:48 PM
Old 01-22-2005
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But how could a user over the internet make a script, and let it run onto my PC, unless i run it by myself??
Someone could DCC something to you on IRC.
If the IRC client has a discovered exploit, and if someone issues a CCTP, finger, whois...etc, to you, instead of getting information about your account, the exploit could be made to run a system command, causing damage to your system.
All the known issues today never means tomorrow something will not be discovered which could be extremely damaging.
Running as root may be OK today, but tomorrow a discovered hole in a program could be used to attack your system. Not all discovered holes in software code are public knowledge either.
If your box becomes compromised, then it could be used as a zombie to partake in further attacks.
This undermines one of the reasons to use GNU/Linux, is its security.
Is there really a reason you must be a logged in as root?
 

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CALENDAR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CALENDAR(1)

NAME
calendar - reminder service SYNOPSIS
calendar [ - ] DESCRIPTION
Calendar consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date anywhere in the line. Most reasonable month-day dates such as `Dec. 7,' `december 7,' `12/7,' etc., are recognized, but not `7 December' or `7/12'. If you give the month as ``*'' with a date, i.e. ``* 1'', that day in any month will do. On weekends `tomorrow' extends through Monday. When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file `calendar' in his login directory and sends him any posi- tive results by mail(1). Normally this is done daily in the wee hours under control of cron(8). The file `calendar' is first run through the ``C'' preprocessor, /lib/cpp, to include any other calendar files specified with the usual ``#include'' syntax. Included calendars will usually be shared by all users, maintained and documented by the local administration. FILES
calendar /usr/libexec/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates /etc/passwd /tmp/cal* /lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses SEE ALSO
at(1), cron(8), mail(1) BUGS
Calendar's extended idea of `tomorrow' doesn't account for holidays. 7th Edition October 21, 1996 CALENDAR(1)
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