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Date:      3 Aug 1997 18:39:10 +0300
From:      Vladimir Litovka <doka@grunt.vl.kharkov.ua>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setuid shutdown?
Message-ID:  <5s28mu$pev$1@grunt.vl.kharkov.ua>

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Hello!

Jonathan A. Zdziarski <jonz@netrail.net> wrote:

> I just realized that my version of freebsd 2.2.2 installs with a
> set-uid-root shutdown command allowing anybody who wants to to shutdown or
> reboot the server.

Why anybody? /sbin/shutdown installed as:
 -r-sr-x---	root	operator	shutdown

So only users, that is in 'operator' group allowed to start this program.
This is enought security, I think.

Sinc, Doka

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        ~NewsGate~ (c) Vladimir Litovka <doka@kharkiv.net>




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