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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:27:32 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ownership of files/tcp_wrappers port
Message-ID:  <199601251127.LAA22260@cadair.elsevier.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199601250102.LAA28536@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 25, 96 11:32:13 am

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In reply to Michael Smith who said
> 
> Paul Richards stands accused of saying:
> > > > Bin has no shell. (See below).  Few or no binaries are ever setuid bin.
> > 
> > Umm, bin does have a shell
> > 
> > bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/bin/sh
> 
> Bin does _not_ have a shell.  I had finished a 2.1 install a few minutes
> before I wrote that message, and I checked my facts.  If your bin has
> a shell, it's either because you gave it one, or because you've
> upgraded from a previous version.
> 

Hmm, I certainly didn't add it and I was a little surprised to find it.
Did we fix this post 2.0.5 since that's what the box started off as.

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