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To: "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: reading files.
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 13 Jun 1999 22:52:35 +0200
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"Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net> writes:
> I heard that there is a way to read any file on a freebsd system as a
> normal non-root user.. is this true? if so can some one give me some info
> on this? thanks.

Not that we know of, but it's damn hard to say anything without more
information.

For instance, if you su'ed to root and typed:

# chmod u+s /bin/cat

then your statement ("there is a way to read any file on a freebsd
system as a normal non-root user") would be true of that particular
machine.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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