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Re: World writable devices in Irix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Powell)
Wed Jan 3 20:41:58 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:34:34 -0800
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From: Brad Powell <bpowell@topsun.West.Sun.COM>
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>From owner-bugtraq@CRIMELAB.COM Wed Jan 3 16:29 PST 1996
> I expect it does. But note that there is also:
>
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 39, 0 Mar 4 1994 /dev/audio
>
>
> Workstation vendors *SHOULD* add these parts themselves (they are the ones
>who really know which device does what). At the very least they could put them
>into an if clause which you have to edit to activate. But they *SHOULD* add
>the relevent code themselves.....
>
> I look forward to hearing whether any vendor actually does do this. I
>will be even more impressed if there is one which does it correctly (and
>adds/changes lines as new devices are added!!).
If its a Solaris box try "man logindevperm"
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Brad Powell : brad.powell@Sun.COM
Sr. Network Security Consultant
SunNetworks, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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