Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 03:49:54 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Markus Holmberg <saska@acc.umu.se>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to remove directories made by the core-following-symlink test code? Message-ID: <19990901034954.A18062@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <19990901032316.A8300@montezuma.acc.umu.se>; from Markus Holmberg on Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:23:16AM %2B0200 References: <19990901032316.A8300@montezuma.acc.umu.se>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 03:23:16AM +0200, Markus Holmberg wrote: > Wanted to test if the 2.2.8-STABLE production box here was vulnerable, so I > compiled and executed with the deep dir structure as a result.. > > Am I missing something very trivial here, or how am I supposed to do to > remove the very deep directory structure that was made by the > core-follow-symlink test/exploit/whatever code? > > A normal "rm -rf <dir>" won't do it.. > I had the same problem - my (quick) solution was something like while (true) do mv * a && cd a done which would rename every directory to "a" (as every directory contains only a single subdirectory), which then could be removed with "rm -rf <dir>". bye, Harold -- <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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