in reply to Playful Perl

Any login or shell trick should be done from within the shell. Nor from within Perl. And any trick, barring things that block him from doing anything at all (like putting an "exec /bin/false" in the top of his .rc file) can be easily defeated, usually by just doing a 'mv ~/.shellrc ~/.nananarc' and relogging in.

Of course you better not play stupid tricks this way on any box I admin. Accounts are not to be shared. And if I need to spend time fixing someone's account, that time will be charged to the budget of your department/group/section whatever.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Playful Perl
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Feb 13, 2004 at 19:49 UTC
    Not to mention that in many corporations that type of "play" is abuse and a reason for dismissal -- so if you have any body out gunning for your job, it places you in an awkward position. Also as a system administrator, you are trusted with executive level private data many times, do you really want to be associated with pulling pranks on your machines -- how trustworthy are you representing yourself to managment?


    -Waswas
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      The fact is this is a sun box that I run in my cube that is not associated with any project ( except my own ) and I open it up to other users to learn unix, or to test software without risk. The fact is that these pranks have accelerated the education of many people. Especially of the 'youngster' and the 'old fart' mentioned in this node.

      coreolyn
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