From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 22 1:15:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539D837B416; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 01:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAM9Fbh79484; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:15:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <014201c17336$40653f90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , Subject: setuid on nethack? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:15:37 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message