From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 19 08:35:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27740 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.cs.msu.su (laskavy@redsun.cs.msu.su [158.250.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA27710 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 08:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from laskavy@localhost) by ns.cs.msu.su (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA23174 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 May 1997 19:35:35 +0400 (DST) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 19:35:35 +0400 (DST) From: "Sergei S. Laskavy" Message-Id: <199705191535.TAA23174@ns.cs.msu.su> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin /usr/sbin Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk eric@Sendmail.ORG said, that +----------------------------------------------+ | For security reasons, /, /usr, and /usr/sbin | | should be owned by root, mode 755. | +----------------------------------------------+ I think that someone can gain "bin" and then replace /usr/sbin/GOOD_PROGGY by /usr/sbin/EVIL_PROGGY