[578] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: telnetd/login hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu May 19 14:01:43 1994
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 14:01:14 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin"), linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jweiss@MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 19 May 1994 12:01:46 -0400,
<199405191601.MAA18265@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU>
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:01:46 -0400
Is there any reason at all to install the script suid root as it suggests?
Not at all --- setuid shell scripts don't work on Linux, so it won't be
a security hole. Of course, installing it suid root won't do any good,
either. :-)
- Ted
