Is there an FSDB Manual?

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.UUCP
Sat Oct 7 00:59:51 AEST 1989


In article <890 at uniol.UUCP>, lehners at uniol.UUCP (Joerg Lehners) writes:
> Hello again !
> 
> I forgot a final word in my previous posting:
> 
> Executables without special privileges (ie. without s-bits) should
> never be security holes.
> Are such beast around ? If so if would like to hear about such things.

How about standard named executables without s-bits that are accidently
run by non-suspecting s-people.  like an "ls" in /tmp.  Chances are 
that it will be run by another user, maybe not root, but at least another
user.  Then you have that user's capabilities....

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