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Re: bin ownership problem
From: perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 14:02:52 -0400
Brad Powell - Sun CIS says:
we had to change the setuid to bin when we changed the ownership of /etc to bin. Otherwise you couldn't use chesstool to break root :-) :-) (that was a joke for the smiley impaired btw) Seriously though this was done so that it could write a high score file.
I've always gone through /usr/games on every SunOS version I get and changed everything to be suid "games" and created a games ID. Makes life much safer. Then people can only use the security holes in games to cheat at the other games. I've always wondered why sun doesn't do that on their own. Perry
Current thread:
- Re: bin ownership problem George Hodson (May 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: bin ownership problem Brad Powell - Sun CIS (May 19)
- Re: bin ownership problem Perry E. Metzger (May 19)
- source routing kernel hack Brad Powell - Sun CIS (May 19)
- Re: bin ownership problem Karl Strickland (May 19)
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