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Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory - Mystery Solved
From: mjh25920 () ggr co uk (Martin Hargreaves)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:40:59 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 11 Aug 1994, Ian Hoyle wrote:
At 1:02 AM 11/8/94, Martin Hargreaves wrote:/usr/sbin/PrintStatus runs suid root, and calls sgihelp. F1 isn't needed you can just hit the help button.Hmmm, I thought it was suid lp. ian
Yes you're right, my mistake. Sorry. However: % uname -a IRIX uk6xxxxx 5.2 02282015 IP19 mips % ls -l /usr/sbin/printers -rwsr-xr-x 1 root sys 181768 Mar 10 20:08 /usr/sbin/printers So I was almost right, this program also calls sgihelp (which is renamed on our systems) On this thread does anyone know why gr_osview in IRIX 4.x and 5.x is suid root, when osview (the non-graphical version) is sgid sys? Martin. Martin Hargreaves | mjh25920 () ggr co uk Computational Chemist | ch11mh () surrey ac uk Glaxo R & D | No problem is so large that & Surrey University | we can't fit it in somewhere
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