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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:14:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.org>
To:        ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bash shell $ and #
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.40.0110111112330.6571-100000@quartz.bos.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011011144321.28812.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com>

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> But ls # not correct in the normal user?
>
> because it is on my system but this system I just
> manage it. I am not sure about it
>
> Is it any harmful to my security?

The prompt itself has no affect on a user's access privileges.  Any user
can override the system prompt setting by changing the appropriate
environment variables, that doesn't give them root access.

Tim Wilde

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Tim Wilde
twilde@dyndns.org
Systems Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/


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