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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:48:17 +1300
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACL's 
Message-ID:  <199903141048.XAA06895@aniwa.sky>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:07:28 %2B1000." <99Mar14.195521est.40346@border.alcanet.com.au> 

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Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> wrote:
> Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> wrote: 
> >I.e., user creates a hard link to /usr/sbin/somesetuidbin to
> >/usr/tmp/mytemp.
> 
> Normal users shouldn't have write permission anywhere on a partition
> containing system binaries - this also removes the problem.  (Note
> that /usr/tmp is accessible only by root under FreeBSD).

There's some sense in that.  It's worthy of note then that this is not how a FreeBSD default install is set up.  Perhaps it should be?

Andrew McNaughton


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