[ILUG] Porting MyDoom to Linux

[Rick Moen]

Quoting myself:

> This is why we sysadmins teach people to say "/bin/su" when su'ing to
> root.  Eh, you never learned that?  Sorry to hear.

On reflection, that's probably been a needless precaution on my part,
albeit well intended.

E.g.:  Malware somehow gets executed in process forked by the MUA.  Sets
alias value for "su" in its local shell context.  Process eventually
terminates.  Oops, were you thinking the alias somehow magically
propagated to all other shells?  Sorry, no, just to subshells.  Ditto
for other mischief committed in the MUA's environment.

Unless you were imagining an MUA that normally runs "su"?

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