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This is why I alias `ls` to `dd` and vice versa on all the systems I admin.

• somat 3y ago
  You joke, but I found something like this in the wild. It was an old legacy sco system been around forever and I was asked to do some maintenance work on it. It used rsh to talk to other machines. But I was having a hell of a hard time finding the rsh command. After a lot of pouring over script sources I found it had been renamed to something else. when I asked their sysadmin WTF was going on with this system. he said it had been done for security. Which is still stupid but I have to admit it may work against your normal "script of the month" style attack. It certainly worked for me.
  • JdeBP 3y ago
    It probably was done for security, the r- utilities being the security pitfalls that they are. It's not defending against attacks. It is, in fact, defending against exactly you, a person who comes along and wants to use the r- utilities. It's a compromise between (most likely) "We mustn't use r- utilities on our LAN any more, and must remove them everywhere." and "This is SCO Unix; it's not even OpenServer.".
  • sam_bristow 3y ago
    I think he meant _job_ security.