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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:01:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      andrewr  <andrewr@slack.net>
To:        ben@efn.org
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possible security "risk" in ftp client
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.980812210035.27880A-100000@brooklyn.slack.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812134552.20149A-100000@Tyr.office.EFN.org>

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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ben wrote:

> For ps I made a patch that allows only root(or wheel, you pick) to use the
> flag '-a', otherwise the user attempting to use '-a' only gets his/her proc's.

Did you patch the kernel as well?  Caue if you didn't, it's useless. 

> 
> Available at:
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/diff.txt 
> 	For the diff between the 2.2.7-RELEASE ps.c and mine.
> 		(/usr/src/bin/ps.c)
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/results.txt
> 	Demonstration of it in action.
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/ps.c
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/ps.old.c
> 	My ps.c and the old ps.c.
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/ps.root.gz
> http://www.efn.org/~ben/ps/ps.wheel.gz
> 	Binaries for 2.2.7 that allow only root, or wheel to use the 
> 	 -a flag correctly.
> 
> > 
> > Andrew
> 
> 	-ben@efn.org EFN News Administrator.
> 
> 


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