[3027] in bugtraq
Re: HPUX expreserve == SunOS 4.13 expreserve?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ashton)
Fri Jul 26 13:40:14 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 17:42:26 BST
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Paul Ashton <ashtonp@gb.swissbank.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
Thomas Lopatic <lopatic@dbs.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>...
>The only question is: Why did they set the set-user-id bit on expreserve,
>if /usr/preserve is world writeable anyway? (And vice versa.)
Be careful with using chmod u-s as a solution to expreserve problems.
Bear in mind that expreserve is often run on boot up as root, which is
often better than being setuid. I had this fixed in solaris.
Paul
