Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 08:26:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: yppasswdd permissions/ownership Message-ID: <199605151326.IAA23557@plains.nodak.edu>
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> We want to allow our NIS users on the clients to set their yp passwords. > Since /etc/master.passwd is rw------- root wheel and yppasswdd runs > as bin bin it seems to me impossible to change the master password database. > > Shouldn't yppasswdd better be run as 4755 root bin ? Or is this > a potential security hole? yppasswdd is a daemon that runs as root. ypasswdd is started from /etc/rc because your /etc/sysconfig has the line: yppasswddflags="-m /etc/master.passwd -s -f" --mark.
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