Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:51:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us, angio@aros.net, hackers@freebsd.org, auditors@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disallow setuid root shells? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970225005145.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702242038.MAA00577@lightside.com>; from Jake Hamby on Feb 24, 1997 12:38:23 -0800 References: <199702242038.MAA00577@lightside.com>
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As Jake Hamby wrote: > My sentiments exactly! I would think that if there was a valid > reason for setuid root shells, then a commercial OS like Solaris > would probably allow them (since paying customers often would rather > have functionality than security!). You think that's the reason why Solaris indeed allows it? :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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