[5462] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat4.0 security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Nov 21 17:26:30 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:17:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: Tyson D Sawyer <tyson@rwii.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <ML-2.3.848595580.7349.tyson@falcon.rwii.com>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Tyson D Sawyer wrote:
> Doesn't the fact that rsh is already suid mean that dump/restore don't
> need to be suid to use rsh? There may be other reasons for
> dump/restore to be suid but rsh doesn't seem like one of them.
I don't think it uses the rsh command, but the protocol itself. I could
*easily* be wrong about this though.
Erik
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