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Re: load.root (loadmodule hole)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper Dik)
Thu Sep 28 13:04:35 1995
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:30:39 +0100
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From: Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 1995 16:12:54 PDT."
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>turning of the suid bit works *mostly*
>
> of course don't expect to be able to run openwindows :-)
This is not entirely true.
The set-uid "loadmodule" program is called by openwin *only* if
you start it with the -nosunview option.
If you don't call it with the -nosunview option, you should
be ok w/o loadmodule, provided you install the sunview stuff
on your system.
Alternatively, you can load the modules from /etc/rc.local
at system boot time.
Casper
