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Re: file permissions on vax 7.2L packs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 18 11:30:58 1990

To: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 18 Dec 90 11:19:59 -0500.
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 90 11:30:35 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>


Things that shouldn't be setuid:

	rsh, rlogin	(kerberos replaces trusted ports)
	movemail

I don't know if the galatea programs are safe when run setuid.

I notice that "at" and the console program both run as daemon.  Is it true that
console doesn't run as root because it isn't trusted?


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