From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 15 07:12:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29533 for security-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:12:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29287 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 07:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01104; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:53:06 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id QAA01322; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:09:20 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id QAA03765; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:08:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19980115160850.23615@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:08:50 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Jess Kitchen Cc: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ccdconfig bug References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Jess Kitchen on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 07:51:53AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jess Kitchen writes: > Hi, > > Following on from the initial ccdconfig bug post, I've found that if > you are persistent with chfn in the background while grepping the Regarding this bug: since ccdconfig is run as root, is there any need for the sgid kmem bit ? Apart from getting the conf dump (-g) as not-root, I don't see the use for it... -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- "Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?" - S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -