Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:38:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid programs in freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960930183327.24468E-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960930144419.191A-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
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Good suggestion. I am tossing about the idea of doing so, but there gets to be more involved than you may think. I don't think it would be a script if I wrote it, but probably a pretty full screen utility similar to sysinstall in interface. The first step I'm working on is getting the information and getting it accurate and complete. Until I know the information is accurate I'm not going to worry about making it easy to use. At the very least, it needs a good explaination about chflags and chmod. On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Steve Reid wrote: > > Below is the start of a document I am putting together about various > > setuid programs in FreeBSD with the intent of giving users a chance to > > disable what they don't need. > [snip] > > This is a very good idea. Other people have posted about what they've > removed the suid bit from, but not with such detailed information. > > How about turning this into a script for convenience? It could go through > all of the suid programs, display the relevant info from your document, > and ask how the modes should be set. Much faster and easier than manually > going through all of the files and typing the necessary chflags and chmod > commands by hand. > > > ===================================================================== > | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | > | Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | > | PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | > | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | > ===================================================================:) >
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