Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:45:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rcarter@consys.com (Russell L. Carter) Cc: julian@whistle.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issetugid(2) Message-ID: <199711261945.MAA13372@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199711261533.IAA17419@dnstoo.consys.com> from "Russell L. Carter" at Nov 26, 97 08:33:30 am
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> Satoshi sent a mail about October 30th, wondering why this hadn't > caused people problems. I ran into it yesterday, cvsupping a > 6 month old 2.2-STABLE to whatever it is today. The buildworld > and installworld went without problems but when I tried to > login to user accounts or launch another xterm, oops! Bash wants > issetugid. OK, I give up. What the heck is it useful for, besides giving a false sense of security to user space programs which may be replaced and thus choose not to cooperate with the security model that it requires? And just what is the security model it requires anyway? Seems to be utterly useless to me... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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