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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:21:11 -0800
From: Brian Litzinger <brian@mpress.com>
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Subject: Is a device entry setuid to root a security issue?
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amanda (the tape backup program) just puked today because

ERROR: home.xxx.com: [can not read/write /dev/null: Permission denied]

So I took a peek:

brian@home>ls -ld /dev/null
cr-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin    2,   2 Dec 10 17:45 /dev/null*            

Is this a security risk?

-- 
Brian Litzinger
brian@mediacity.com