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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:31:05 -0600 (CST)
From:      igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
To:        clary@elec.uq.edu.au (Clary Harridge)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/security 
Message-ID:  <199610310031.SAA18957@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610302332.JAA21364@s5.elec.uq.edu.au> from "Clary Harridge" at Oct 31, 96 09:32:18 am

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I think, this is a nice feature
(unless, of coarse, you have to be dealing with Windows.)
It's nice to have an alert, that somebody created
a file with the name which is most probably should not exist on
a Unix box.

Thus, this suggestion should not be implemented, but should really be an
option to choose, if one needs.

Using this opportunity want to mention a small bug related to
/etc/daily.
I noticed this an year ago. Once an year you will not receive 
you daily report. Because the default time is 2:00,
/etc/daily never runs on the day when we have a change of date
in spring, or runs twice in autumn. (or something like that, I
forgot the details)
Thus, I think it would be wise to change it to 0:45, for example.

Regards,

IgoR
aka StR


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> 
> A suggestion for /etc/security
> 
> The current version falls over when checking for suid / sgid files
> when the file names contain spaces. These file names are generated
> by win95 when your FreeBSD host runs as a samba server.
> Any such suid files just get dropped by the find but give errors.
> 
> You get lots of errors like
> 
> find: /u1/staff/matt/Mail/ GPutland: illegal path
> find: /u1/staff/matt/Mail/ Email: illegal path
> 
> I would suggest 
> REPLACING
> ================================================================
> while test $# -ge 1; do
>         mount=$1
>         shift
>         find -X $mount -xdev -type f \
>                 \( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x \) \
>                 \( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s \) | sort
> done | xargs -n 20 ls -lgTd > $TMP
> ================================================================
> WITH
> ================================================================
> 	find $mount -xdev -type f \
> 		\( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x \) \
> 		\( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s \) -a -exec ls -lgTd {} ";"
> done > $TMP
> ================================================================
> 
> -- 
> regards			Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
> Clary Harridge		University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072
> 			Phone: +61-7-3365-3636	Fax:   +61-7-3365-4999
> 			INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au
> 




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