[9987] in bugtraq
Re: X11R6 NetBSD Security Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (/usr/libexec/telnetd)
Fri Mar 26 13:40:44 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:20:26 -0800
Reply-To: /usr/libexec/telnetd <telnetd@DOEMILL.SHOCKING.COM>
From: /usr/libexec/telnetd <telnetd@DOEMILL.SHOCKING.COM>
X-To: Taral <taral@cyberjunkie.com>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <99032519094600.29338@taral.dobiecenter.com>
Well, when theres a reboot, /tmp/ is cleared. And If you havent started X
yet, it could be a problem. This isnt and ultra spiffy important problem,
just thought I would bring it up.
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Mar 25 10:52 .X11-unix/
>
> I'd like to see a non-root user delete that from /tmp. Many systems have this
> in place like this, since root is the first to log into X. Systems that do not
> have this directory owned by root should chown it.
>
> Taral
>
