Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:10:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Woodford <woodford@cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981117150503.5386C-100000@cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19981115161548.A23869@internal>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
| For example:
|
| root@voyager:~>ll /etc/spwd.db /etc/master.passwd
| -rw-r----- 1 root pw - 828 Nov 15 12:43 /etc/master.passwd
| -rw-r----- 1 root pw - 40960 Nov 15 12:43 /etc/spwd.db
|
| root@voyager:~>ll /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock
| ---x--s--x 1 root pw - 126976 Oct 1 08:17 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock*
I think this is a good idea. The change in perms didnt seem to affect anything
else in a bad way, and it got rid of a setuid. Andre, thanks for posting it!
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