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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by TylerE on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:36PM (#15443717)
Would it?

If the attacker was able to backdoor the system, isn't also possible they could install a modified shell that no-ops \?

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Re:iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just ... by seiferteric on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @04:06PM (#15444930)
Isn't the login shell set in /etc/passwd? So you would need root to either modify that, or to overwrite the shell binary.
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