Re: [cobalt-users] Midnight Commander

[Thom LaCosta <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> On Saturday 21 September 2002 19:15, Thom LaCosta wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > > NOT, new news! And MC is available to millions of Linux users!
> >
> > And it looks like if you install this one, any user can go all sorts of
> > places in the server...not sure if they can write/delete.
> >
>
> It might be another M$ Linux exploit....

I logged in as a regular user...you can't write/delete files that aren't
yours, but you can read them with pico...so, since it apparently can be
run by all users...anyone can nose around.

Too bad, I would have liked to have it available for my use...but I don't
think I can afford that luxuary.....now to find out how to unpkg it off
the system.

Thom