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<div style="">For the file <font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar in the FooBar2.1 directory:<br>
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1) Change the permissions so that they are so loose that anyone can do whatever they want. Note that this step is unnecessary for the rest of the process and serves only to make data leakage and 2nd stage attacks easier.<br>
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2) Extract the file and watch the process.<br>
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More seriously, if you have to document this, you'd be better off by replacing this with a simple shell script that runs as "extract file". This would allow you to put a lot of checks in there that are necessary should shouldn't be part of the documentation
anyway. You might also want to make sure that the chmod command is necessary. I am having trouble coming up with a scenario where it would be.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF356754"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Rob Miller [robarooney@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 03, 2011 08:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cialug] Can someone translate for me?<br>
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<div>Can someone translate this *nix phrase into "instructional English"? TIA.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the FooBar2.1 directory:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1.<span>
</span>chmod 777 Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2.<span>
</span>tar –xvf Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p>
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<div>Would the translation be something like:</div>
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<div>1. Copy the compressed Foobar file (*.tar) to the FooBar2.1 directory.</div>
<div>2. Set the file permissions using the chmod 777 command.</div>
<div>3. Extract the compressed contents of the Foobar file (*.tar) using the tar -xvf command.</div>
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<div>Again, thanks for the help.</div>
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