Encrypted home partition accessible by administrator

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 20:16, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It is a bit like that famous (mythical ?) Microsoft voice recognition
> demonstration, where a member of the audience is said to have yelled
> out "Format see colon!", so the computer did.

This is referenced in the novel "Headcrash" by Bruce Bethke, which I
highly recommend. He may not have originated it, of course.

He points out the defect that a format command needs "y <return>" to
continue... someone else runs through shouting that a moment later.

I *think* that NT will not let you do it. I tried it on Win9x and
terrifyingly it did actually work.

> So, no, as I said, the student entered the command
> chmod .

I think you misremember. The minimal viable command would be something like:

chmod 0 .

Older Unices were _less_ tolerant of malformed commands than more
modern ones. I was there at the time -- I was building SCO Xenix
systems in the 1980s.

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