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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:02:23 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grumble.grondar.za.@grondar.za>
To:        -Vince- <vince@mercury.gaianet.net>
Cc:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>, mark@grumble.grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@mercury.gaianet.net, jbhunt@mercury.gaianet.net
Subject:   Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down! 
Message-ID:  <199606251002.MAA09345@grumble.grondar.za>

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-Vince- wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Don Yuniskis wrote:
> > > 	Hmmm, that's only if we had phone support.... We don't :)  but do 
> > > admins really go run a program that the user said won't run?
> > 
> > Well, it *appears* that one of *you* did!  :>
> 
> 	Well, jbhunt was the one who gave the user the account and the 
> user just transferred the root which is /bin/sh with setuid and ran it 
> and he got root....  

Review that. _Carefully_. I think you are seriously WRONG there. That
user did something sneaky, and you did not see it.

M
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