From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 17 13:20:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16776 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com (cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com [24.3.18.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16695 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from woodford@cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com) Received: from localhost (woodford@localhost) by cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with SMTP id PAA05402 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:10:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:10:18 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Woodford To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? In-Reply-To: <19981115161548.A23869@internal> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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! -- Bill Woodford * woodford@cc181716-a.hwrd1.md.home.com * ICQ:14076169 Volunteer Coordinator, Otakon 99: Convention of Otaku Generation "Windows Multitasking: Messing up several things at once." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message