From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 15 1:32:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D7E37B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Zquq-0009qZ-00; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:32:12 +0200 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:32:12 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mike Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make is suid? Message-ID: <20000915103211.A37827@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000914203236.00ba1c10@mail.mikesweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000914203236.00ba1c10@mail.mikesweb.com>; from mike@mikesweb.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:33:28PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-09-14 (20:33), Mike wrote: > I noticed that make is suid root. > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root kmem 442384 Aug 25 05:51 > /usr/local/bin/make > > Is that supposed to be? Would it still work for users if it wasn't? You installed GNU make without using the port, I think. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message