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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:53:46 -0400
From:      "Kristen Doyle" <colk@tampabay.rr.com>
To:        "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com>
Cc:        "Mike" <wacky@blinx.net>, "Moo Moo Moo" <Freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Question
Message-ID:  <001201c12d97$46124a80$f0f2a118@tampabay.rr.com>
References:  <20010825095954.I38221-100000@localhost>

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ahh ok i guess it must have paniced what kinds of things would make it
panic?
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To: "Kristen Doyle" <colk@tampabay.rr.com>
Cc: "Mike" <wacky@blinx.net>; "Moo Moo Moo" <Freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Question


> I'm not aware of any exploits for the shutdown command. If shutdown was
> used, you'll see it in the 'last' output and in /var/log/messages.
>
> On all of my FreeBSD systems, shutdown is setuid-root and is also owned by
> the operator group, so anyone in operator can reboot the box through
> shutdown.
>
> Without more information, I would guess that your server was rebooted
> through a different exploit, or perhaps it rebooted because it panic'd and
> you have DDB and DDB_UNATTENDED(IIRC) configured in the kernel.
>
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Kristen Doyle wrote:
>
> > As i thought I belive someone exploited that to reboot the box ( its a
shell server with about 20 users on it so I only want shutdown really
working from su or with a password
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Mike
> >   To: Kristen Doyle
> >   Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:29 PM
> >   Subject: Re: Question
> >
> >
> >   No shutdown does not need to be suid but if you do set it -s then I
would chmod 700 it.
> >   -Mike
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: Kristen Doyle
> >     To: Moo Moo Moo
> >     Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:25 PM
> >     Subject: Question
> >
> >
> >     Does anyone know if shutdown should be setuid to work or if it
dosent need it
> >
>


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