[1162] in bugtraq
Re: set group id on directories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Hill)
Fri Mar 3 06:30:49 1995
From: Jake Hill <jhill@srd.bt.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 95 09:32:16 GMT
To: bugtraq@fc.net
> I'd like to know if a sgid bit on a directory represents a security risk,
> given the fact that the directory is not world or group writable.
I inherited an old SunOS 4.1 box a while ago like this - dunno if that is
what the distribution was like, but I didn't like the look so I just reset
all the sgid bits with no nasty side effects.
Jake.
