[5453] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat4.0 security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piete Brooks)
Thu Nov 21 17:05:22 1996
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:39:48 +0000
From: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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> -rwsr-sr-x- root mail 72628 Oct 17 17:57 /usr/bin/mh/inc
> -rwsr-xr-x- root root 52536 Oct 17 17:57 /usr/bin/mh/msgchk
> Access /var/spool/mail
We don't use /var/spool/mail (.mail instead) but I thought that inc and msgchk
were suid root so as to allow (R)POP users to do things or some such ...
We remove it (and from login !).
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