topic Re: Security commands in Linux systems in Endpoint Security

Security commands in Linux systems

Daniel Céspedes — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 10:59:23 GMT

good morning community

Well I was looking for different commands to quickly view who has been logged to a device.
I saw 2 curious commands: who mum likes and who mum hates, I tried to find additional information for the last one but there is nothing clear. It seems it is quite unknown and there is a joke or mistery around that command, and a warning as well

So, does somebody know what output could pop out after hitting enter? that warning makes me feel tempted but I dont feel like installing linux again.

Re: Security commands in Linux systems

M02@rt37 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:07:57 GMT

Hello @Daniel Céspedes,

The commands "who mum likes" and "who mum hates" are humorous or prank commands that don't have any meaningful output. They are not standard Linux or Unix commands, and using them will generally result in a message meant to entertain or confuse the user.

Re: Security commands in Linux systems

Daniel Céspedes — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:43:12 GMT

certainly, i used both and nothing came out

Re: Security commands in Linux systems

Martin L — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:51:35 GMT

Be careful ! Funny or Prank, Don't use them! you never know what might happen when u do; you could have enabled some malicious script hidden behind those "shortcut" commands.

Regards, ML
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Re: Security commands in Linux systems

Daniel Céspedes — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:40:56 GMT

Ok I will keep an eye if I see something weird going on