Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 05:41:48 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Marco Molteni" <molter@tin.it> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A better explanation (was: buffer overflows and chroot) Message-ID: <v04011704b2a1327bf206@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981218193124.339A-100000@nympha> References: <62537.913989002@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I (Garance) wrote: > > Chances are that some of those programs are ones which will > only work if they run as root. (say he wanted to pursue > buffer overflows in lpd, for instance. [etc] Er, I meant 'lpr' there... lpd runs as root, but isn't setuid! --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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