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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 23:33:43 -0700
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From: Chris Moline <chris@theboss.net>
Subject: How come halt has to be suid to work?
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Usually when I finish up on my system I am working as root and so I never
noticed this before. The permissions were 555 but every time I used halt as
an ordinary user I got operation not permitted. I fixed this problem by
changing the permissions to 4550. Why does it have to be like this?(I
really don't like suid-I had to reinstall several times because of
malicious scripts. It is not so bad now that I know to watch out for them.)

TIA,
Chris Moline



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