From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 4 2:17: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD7137B502; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e949GxQ02945; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:16:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Dima Dorfman , Mike Silbersack , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD chpass (fwd) Message-ID: <20001004021658.F27736@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001004053422.8A3901F19@static.unixfreak.org> <20001004021426.A74690@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001004021531.B74690@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001004021531.B74690@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:15:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Kris Kennaway [001004 02:15] wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:14:26AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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 :-) > > Oops, can't do that. Reboot :) Can you mount something over it? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message