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Subject: setuid on nethack?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:15:37 +0100
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This morning I see an e-mail from the system telling me that setuid is set on
nethack, the adventure-style game that I installed recently.  Why would this
game require this bit?  I reset it with chmod 0544, which seems like plenty to
me.


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