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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:32:43 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "John" <john@digitalinet.com>
Cc:        "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: BSD chpass 
Message-ID:  <200010041732.LAA37782@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:15:55 EDT." <008001c02e26$c20c6100$03030303@dns> 
References:  <008001c02e26$c20c6100$03030303@dns>  <4.2.2.20001004011210.035225e0@mail.sentex.net> <200010041719.LAA37604@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <008001c02e26$c20c6100$03030303@dns> "John" writes:
: chmod a-s /usr/bin/chpass
: or chmod 700 /usr/bin/chpass
: 
: Solution or not ? I believe that will work out just fine.

workaround.  It will protect you from the exploit, but much
functionality that these commands provide will be lost.

Warner


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