From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 8 18:48:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D3737B405; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 18:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f891mFu34458; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 05:48:15 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 05:48:14 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Multiple vendor 'Taylor UUCP' problems. Message-ID: <20010909054814.B34319@nagual.pp.ru> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010908153417.0286b4b8@192.168.0.12> <200109082103.f88L3fK29117@earth.backplane.com> <20010908181652H.jkh@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010908181652H.jkh@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 18:16:52 -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Hmmmm. Stripping the suid bit I can understand, but what's really I can not. It breaks uu* functionality. > bought by making it immutable? I'm also truly loath to accept any By making them immutable we prevent overwritting uu* binaries by "uucp" user. I think it is good move. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message