Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:56:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10009071052480.11627-100000@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20000907104925.A37872@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > Why would someone install the sudo RedHat package on FreeBSD? > sudo is a FreeBSD port, and is distributed in the set of precompiled packages, for quite a long time, and is of course included in the package set of the 4.1 release - sudo-1.6.3.4.tgz And sudo is a nice tool for delegating certain priviliges to users, that's why I installed it. It's surely more secure, than telling everybody the root password - although you have to be careful not to create a security hole. Vladimir Mencl ** reduced Cc: header To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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