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Re: HP-UX Problem...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Shipley)
Wed Feb 22 02:20:29 1995

To: Aaron Sherman <ajs@vorlon.ajs.com>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 20 Feb 1995 04:42:35 -0500.
             <199502200942.EAA01941@vorlon.ajs.com> 
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 22:07:36 -0800
From: Pete Shipley <shipley@merde.dis.org>

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>Did HP ever fix the diagnostic program that was SUID root, and
>would read any file as a directive file? I found it amusing to
>run this, and have it report "blah is unrecognized" for each line,
>where "blah" is the contents of each line, one at a time, of any
>system file, regardless of ownership and mode ;-)

you used to  be able to do this with sendmail

to read a file you ran:

	/usr/lib/sendmail -C/home/shipley/diary

and you would see the content as a part of the diag..

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