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From: -Vince- <vince@mercury.gaianet.net>
To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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        Chad Shackley <chad@mercury.gaianet.net>,
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Subject: Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down! 
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On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, John Fieber wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, -Vince- wrote:
> 
> > 	Good one Jordan :-)  But the thing is how did he get that binary there
> > in the first place since if he can do that here, then he can do that on any
> > machine that he doesn't have group wheel on to gain root access...  I'll 
> 
> Um, have people forgotten about the nifty little mount trick that
> used to be a FreeBSD feature?  You would only need to use it once
> to install your root command.

	Nah, that isn't it since we're running -current and I fixed that 
problem when it was announced.....  both the man and the mount_union hole...

Vince