corprewland » unix http://www.corprew.org (dis)information organization Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:39:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en unix: year 19 http://www.corprew.org/blog/2008/04/03/unix-year-19/ http://www.corprew.org/blog/2008/04/03/unix-year-19/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:39:39 +0000 corprew http://www.corprew.org/blog/2008/04/03/unix-year-19/ My first access to a unix machine was around 19 years ago, and I’m still amazined that sudo tcsh is a valid command on most systems.

I’m not saying that it isn’t convenient, mind you, but the fact that I can then execute emacs is also hilarious. Especially because sudo emacs is prohibited.

here is your system log, let me save you the trouble of auditing it by running a shell.

(I’m aware, incidentally, that it’s basically impossible to stop people from running a shell as long as they can run any naive-turing-complete interpreter or compiler. Maybe it’s time to only fight battles you can win.)

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