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Re: [daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : LPRng lpd should not be SETUID root]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 10 16:11:26 2000
Message-Id: <200007102011.QAA03413@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:44:45 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:11:19 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Based on the version numbers this should affect us, but it doesn't
> look like lpd has the suid bit set. Are we winning because of local
> build system mods or something?
Appears so:
revision 1.14
date: 1999/10/30 19:41:14; author: mwhitson; state: Exp; lines: +3 -3
Fix typo in distribution, and don't install lpd setuid root
Given that Mike reported most of his patches upstream, I somehow
suspect that this was reported to Patrick months ago and he failed to
notice. But perhaps not.
