[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:37 -0400, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On 5/19/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is too good to pass up because of that.  I will gleefully provide
> > up-front air travel and hotel and can personally pick you up at the
> > airport, deliver you to the meeting etc.
> 
> Wow. You'd do all that just so one of us could show up, log in, and
> type rm -rf / on his box? 

I don't quite think that was the only challenge. ;-)  Proving that it's
not recoverable is going to be quite difficult. 

> I guess I could do the honors. I might even bring a box in and let 
> Drew log in as a normal user and try to figure out how to damage 
> the system.
> 
> We really need an ALE "Hall of Fame" archive for threads like these. 

Yes, someone should summarize (insults and all) and post in the wiki.

-Jim P.