[5487] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat4.0 security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Thu Nov 21 18:37:55 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:40:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
To: Tyson D Sawyer <tyson@rwii.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <ML-2.3.848617478.2583.tyson@falcon.rwii.com>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Tyson D Sawyer wrote:
> My Picasso machine lists SuperProbe as suid root. This seems unneeded.
> Has Colgate changed this? I don't have a Colgate machine handy at the
> moment to check.
My Colgate indeed has that suid root (Xfree86-3.2 installed). I agree it
is in no way needed; root should be the only person needing to run it,
and root doesn't need things suid root :-)
Chris.
PS Let's see how many suid-bit removals these discussions can cause :)
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