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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:16:53 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
Cc:        "[Mario1-]" <Mario1@PrimeNet.Com>, JbHunt <johnnyu@accessus.net>, Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Tomasz Dudziak <loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security hole in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970728201621.121B-100000@netrail.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728162423.3844B-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>

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I have mine set to root-owned and have had no problems.  I also made sure
my config files were root, otherwise you could change that to run as-root
which is just as bad.


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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

:On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
:
:=)As long as httpd and sessiond are owned by something other than what cgi
:=)scripts run as you're safe, but if they are both nobody, you can replace
:=)the binary...We had it happen to us once with v1.2 this is how I know.
:
:	Hmmm, what should the owners be for those files?  Since the apache
:cgi scripts are owned by root as far as I can remember.
:
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:Cheers,
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