From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 30 16:49:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13692 for security-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from s5.elec.uq.edu.au (clary@s5.elec.uq.edu.au [130.102.96.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13687 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from clary@localhost) by s5.elec.uq.edu.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA23155; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:48:42 +1000 (EST) From: Clary Harridge Message-Id: <199610310048.KAA23155@s5.elec.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: /etc/security In-Reply-To: <199610310031.SAA18957@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from Igor Roshchin at "Oct 30, 96 06:31:05 pm" To: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:48:42 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-3365-3636 Fax: +61-7-3365-4999 INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au