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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>
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        Tomasz Dudziak <loco@onyks.wszib.poznan.pl>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

=)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.

	Hmm, are they supposed to be in the wheel group or bin like some
bins are?


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