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From: boyd@necisa.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Trojan horse possible with news readers
Message-ID: <534@necisa.necisa.oz>
Date: 7 Dec 88 01:03:48 GMT
References: <6775@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> <1261@vsi1.UUCP> <576@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia Pty. Ltd.
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In article <576@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
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> >I don't believe that those braindamaged versions of vi will execute:
> >
> >> ex:!sh -c 'echo any command'>/tmp/NEWSBUG:
>
>They will (I tried it).

And it does on Sys V2.2 -- yuk!

And you can't unset modeline, 'cos vi claims there isn't such an option.

My kingdom for sam!  And, a jerq!


Boyd Roberts			NEC Information Systems Australia

boyd@necisa.necisa.oz

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''