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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 13:13:59 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200008111913.NAA36613@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Aug 2000 21:09:38 %2B0200." <200008111909.e7BJ9cU57765@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> 
References:  <200008111909.e7BJ9cU57765@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>  

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In message <200008111909.e7BJ9cU57765@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> John Hay writes:
: If we really want to be this paranoid, we should think about removing
: all other suid programs from a standard build too.

Which ones?

The current list that I have shows many, relatievly small ones that
have been well audited and are easy to audit.  Perl isn't easy to
audit, is huge and has the ability to load arbitrary code (iirc).

I do like the idea of installing it mode 0, but worry about hozing
existing people.  But it would be a failsafe way to hoze them rather
than the fail unsafe way we might hose them now.

Warner


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