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Re: "Find all the SUID programs." Fine. So which *should* be SUID?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elias Levy)
Sun Mar 12 07:13:11 1995

Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 23:25:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Elias Levy <elias@power.net>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu, andy@distrib.com
In-Reply-To: <199503120455.FAA06712@devnull.ping.de>
Reply-To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu

On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:

> Coding the proper permissions inside the binaries.  Make the program
> check its own permissions upon startup and add an option like
> "--check-own-permissions" to it.
> 

[snip]

And just who decides what are the proper permissionsfor every diferent
package? Thats the real problem.

elias@power.net (Elias Levy)
PowerNet, Inc.

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