From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 9 1:22: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1395D37B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 01:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f898Le338879; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:21:40 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:21:40 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Bruce Evans Cc: Matt Dillon , Mike Tancsa , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Multiple vendor 'Taylor UUCP' problems. Message-ID: <20010909122140.A38804@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200109082045.f88KjjK29003@earth.backplane.com> <20010909174638.Q3607-100000@alphplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010909174638.Q3607-100000@alphplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 18:07:52 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > I don't see how schg'ing these binaries makes them significantly more > secure. These binaries are not writable by uucp. They are writable > by root, but root can just as easily un-schg them as write them. From user, chmod u+w binary, then ovewrite it -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message