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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 14:16:12 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>, Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@freebsd.org, auditors@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disallow setuid root shells? 
Message-ID:  <E0vz7kq-00059M-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:46:21 PST." <3311E1FD.167EB0E7@whistle.com> 
References:  <3311E1FD.167EB0E7@whistle.com>  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.960108043026.5974A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> 

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In message <3311E1FD.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Julian Elischer writes:
: It's not a bad I dea but I'd vote against it..
: (however I MIGHT think about adding LOGGING of such an event? :)
: (in the same way that su logs.)

I think that I like this better.  There are many people that use a
setuid/setgid shell program to allow access to other programs on the
system.  At least this was true before sudo and friends.

Warner


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