Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 18:41:41 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat exploit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980912183543.954G-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <19980911124430.A15005@drwho.xnet.com>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Michael Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:57:59AM -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > No, I usually 'less', 'more', or even 'emacs' it. For two reasons. > > 1) INSTALL is usually too large to fit in a single terminal window; > > sometimes too large to fit in the default scrollbuffer. 2) It > > might contain characters that would make my terminal window do > > something I'd rather it didn't... > > And another solution that has thus far been forgotten: file(1). I use this > routinely, on systems that have it, before I "cat" or "more" a file... Not reliable. By way of a test I just created a largish text file with some binary data tacked on the end, and file(1) described it as ASCII text. Andrew McNaughton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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