From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 4 2:14:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54A837B502; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id CAA74895; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:14:26 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Mike Silbersack , security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD chpass (fwd) Message-ID: <20001004021426.A74690@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20001004053422.8A3901F19@static.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001004053422.8A3901F19@static.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:34:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:34:22PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > For those not subscribed to bugtraq, it's time to remove the suid bit on > > chpass. > > Unfortunatly it isn't that easy if you're running with securelevel > 0 > since chpass is installed with the schg (system immutable) flag on by > default. Oh well, guess it's time to reboot some hosts. :-/ mv it into a mode 000 directory :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message