[16004] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.18: modem/kermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jun 28 23:04:10 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>,
bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:53:20 EDT."
<199806282353.TAA05940@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:04:06 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The behavior is the same in 8.2. Instead of disabling UUCP locking,
> what do we have to do to make it work correctly? Maybe create the
> dir and use setuid or setgid?
The directory already exists. I don't think it would be easy to make
kermit setuid or setgid only for UUCP lock creation and not for other
tasks. (And "hard" here means "likely to create new security holes
even if we go to all the work.")
