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Re: problem with selection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Weber)
Mon Aug 28 19:30:17 1995
From: tom@pandemonium.saar.de (Thomas Weber)
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:25:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508281045.AA24355=aeb@papegaai.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at Aug 28, 95 10:45:06 am
> Yes. But nobody who is security conscious should install it suid root.
> It does not need any privileges, except possibly for killing earlier
> invocations, left by another user. Thus, any uid will do.
No. It needs to be suid root because of some ioctl's. Or noone else than
root can start it.
Tom
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