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Date:      Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:38:55 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
To:        Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setuid shutdown?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970803113844.9226A-100000@netrail.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708031435.KAA02364@i4got.lakewood.com>

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Hmm mine was globably executable


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Jonathan A. Zdziarski                                NetRail Incorporated
Server Engineering Manager                    230 Peachtree St. Suite 500
jonz@netrail.net                                        Atlanta, GA 30303
http://www.netrail.net                                    (888) - NETRAIL
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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Bill Pechter wrote:

:> I just realized that my version of freebsd 2.2.2 installs with a
:> set-uid-root shutdown command allowing anybody who wants to to shutdown or
:> reboot the server.  Obviously I removed the bits, and got rid of the
:> problem, but you might all want to check that.  I currently have sudo
:> installed, and am able to unsuid quite a few other programs and run them
:> under sudo (which logs nicely what my employees are doing too).
:> 
:
:-r-sr-x---  1 root  operator  151552 Jun 10 13:59 /sbin/shutdown
:
:According to the permissions only root and members of the operator
:group can do shutdown with this version of shutdown (2.2.2-RELEASE)
:
:Bill
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