From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 20:50:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805B014CF8 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:50:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA19046; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:08:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Laurence Berland Cc: davebullock@dwindledistribution.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chmod to death! In-Reply-To: <37279209.C41A5BE2@confusion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, what's the leading 4? it turns the file "setuid" man chmod. a "setuid" file when executed changes your userid to the owner of the file until it exits. so not only did he hose his machine... but he made it VERY easy to become any user on the box. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message