[5533] in bugtraq
Re: xbru vulnerability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theo Van Dinter)
Sat Nov 8 19:32:56 1997
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 13:15:58 -0500
Reply-To: Theo Van Dinter <felicity@KLUGE.NET>
From: Theo Van Dinter <felicity@KLUGE.NET>
X-To: Kyle Amon <amonk@GNUTEC.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199711080559.AAA23651@minotaur.gnutec.com>
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Kyle Amon wrote:
| > It appears as though the program was NOT suppose to go out 777 -- rather
| > 1777. That little sticky bit of a difference provides for the security of
| > ownership. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Unless you want non-root users to do restores/backups, there's no problem in
making the perms non-world writeable. My /usr/local/lib/bru directory is
775, works fine (as expected) from root.
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