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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:48:42 +1000 (EST)
From:      Clary Harridge <clary@elec.uq.edu.au>
To:        igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/security
Message-ID:  <199610310048.KAA23155@s5.elec.uq.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610310031.SAA18957@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from Igor Roshchin at "Oct 30, 96 06:31:05 pm"

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> I think, this is a nice feature
> (unless, of coarse, you have to be dealing with Windows.)
> It's nice to have an alert, that somebody created
> a file with the name which is most probably should not exist on
> a Unix box.


UNIX does not care if they have spaces

> > 
> > The current version falls over when checking for suid / sgid files
> > when the file names contain spaces. These file names are generated
> > by win95 when your FreeBSD host runs as a samba server.
> > Any such suid files just get dropped by the find but give errors.

The point is that you could have suid files that are not flagged as 
such by this script because find drops them if you use the -X switch.

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