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Date:      Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:39:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>
Cc:        pal <pal@PaLaDiN7.ml.org>, sporkl@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, osa@freebsd.org.ru
Subject:   Re: SSH 2.0.10 BUG? (!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811081938100.8174-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811090329010.5722-100000@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net>

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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Phillip Salzman wrote:

> make it +s

DO NOT.

Doing so would quite possibly introduce a major security hole.  Very few
daemons are designed to have the setuid bit set, for the simple reason
that if they have to be root they are normally already root.  

> On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, pal wrote:
> 
> > its:
> > 
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  1310188 28  20:57 sshd2 
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