[9843] in bugtraq
Re: Linux /usr/bin/gnuplot overflow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Heuse)
Mon Mar 8 18:47:08 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 23:03:23 +0100
Reply-To: Marc Heuse <marc@SUSE.DE>
From: Marc Heuse <marc@SUSE.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Hi!
> > /etc/rc.config and set PERMISSION_SECURITY="paranoid". That way gnuplot
>
> warning, warning.
>
> permissions.paranoid is not supported by SuSE --- it was contributed
> by me. It only fixes the problems that SuSE 5.0 had. When I have
> some time again, I will do the same work with a full install of
> SuSE 6.0.
this is true but not bad. This just means that there are no additional
programs which get the suid bit. thats okay ;-)
> At least without clear information from SuSE that /etc/permissions.paranoid
> is uptodate, I would not count on it to be _absolutely_ paranoid.
> After all, you are supposed to do your homeworks yourself, too :)
>
> Also, for it to work, it needs a few things, such as an ``xok'' group,
> etc, look at the start of that file.
no. I "xok" "trusted" etc. groups are now part of the standard SuSE
distribution
Greets,
Marc
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