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Re: permissions of 'wall'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Tue Nov 12 13:34:09 1996

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:32:23 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Robert Hart wrote:
........
> 
> Blech - that's terrible.
>         chmod 550 /usr/bin/wall
> 
> That gets rid of that one...now, is there a problem with this?

Yes, there's. Any user can d-load his own copy of wall.

:)


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