[14] in bugtraq
Re: Internet Worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Hodson)
Mon Oct 17 22:27:41 1994
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 94 01:58:47 BST
From: George Hodson <george@siltrain.demon.co.uk>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
Paul Daw said...
> Yeah, really.
>
> Reminds of the "bin owns /etc" security hole. Since when does someone
> need to own a file to move it outta the way? :-)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
That wasn't a bug, just inappropriate ownership :-)
I got loadsa heat about my comment regarding permissions on directories.
Listen you bunch of propellor-heads, before you hassle me to death,
please learn/understand directory permissions, obviously a good number
of us don't !-)
regards
George
