From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 24 16:26:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03070 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02875; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA07391; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 01:22:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA02010; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:51:46 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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? References: <199702242038.MAA00577@lightside.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702242038.MAA00577@lightside.com>; from Jake Hamby on Feb 24, 1997 12:38:23 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)