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by bestouff 14 days ago
If it used one of the standard arguments-handling crates (e.g. "clap") there's no way it can happen.
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If it used one of the standard system APIs for looking up user accounts (e.g. getpwnam(3)), there's no way it can happen.

This is incredibly bad engineering, on level of a SQL injection, in 21st century. Something a highschool student experimenting with scripting could come up with, but not a supposedly professional software company.

Agreed.