Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 09:15:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX locale format string vulnerability (fwd) Message-ID: <200009071615.JAA06923@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <00090717035304.31820@foo.akitanet.co.uk>
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>From: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> >To: "Vladimir Mencl, MK, susSED" <mencl@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz>, >Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:01:54 +0100 >Although a valid point, I'm amazed that on 99.95% of machines with sudo >installed I can walk upto it and type: >sudo su - >And get root shell straight away.sudo /bin/sh is always a good one as well. I >think the education needs to start at the basic level first,because I've yet to >see anybody setup sudo correctly the first time around. With respect, what you observe may well be "correctly" for some of the installations in question. "What is correct" is a highly context- sensitive matter, and trying to apply the criteria for one set of circumstances to an installation that is in a different set of circumstances is not always useful. This is not to say that folks do not make mistakes; we're all human. But in practice, there are trade-offs made in implementing security. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator Desk: 650/577-7158 TIE: 8/499-7158 Cell: 650/759-0823 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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