Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:49:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Cc: security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ownership of files/tcp_wrappers port Message-ID: <199601260949.JAA11440@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <9601260937.AA00228@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> from "David E. O'Brien" at Jan 26, 96 01:37:32 am
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In reply to David E. O'Brien who said > > As demonistrated by Nathan Lawson <nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu>, > having system binaries owned by ``bin'' has serious security flaws that > would be reduced by having them owned by ``root'', the *real* question is > how do we go about _offically_ changing this? > guys, these are NFS problems. If you want to stop people su'ing to bin then map bin to nobody as well. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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