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Re: Exploit for Linux wu.ftpd hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Shipley)
Thu Jul 6 00:29:54 1995
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 19:36:29 -0700
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From: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org>
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>Ahh, but isn't wu-ftp supposed to be running as uid ftp?
>
>where does the turnabout come in where ftpd runs as ROOT?
ftpd had to run as root so it can change it's uid to the ftp user.
