Re: First patch :)

[peter () ATTIC VUURWERK NL (Peter van Dijk)]

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Chris Evans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The "ruid" idea and prevent exec/fork of suid programs, is a nice idea but
> is really security through obscurity.
[snip]
> syscall chmod 666 /etc/passwd
You got a point there, but there are two things to remember:
- no system is secure... anything that helps, helps.
- it _will_ stop script kiddies, as most exploits seem to be based on
'standard shellcode by Aleph One'.
And stopping script kiddies is a _big_ part of the job. Most of the
systems I've seen hacked where hacked with your average rootshell exploit.

Greetz, Peter.

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