Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 19:45:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/df set-gid operator Message-ID: <200104211745.TAA13326@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104211934540.88695-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
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Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I'm wondering why /bin/df is set-gid to the operator group > > by default. > > It's to df filesystems that aren't mounted. Try "df /dev/ad0s1a" (or > whatever) as user nobody with chmod 555 /bin/df. Ah, thanks for clueing me. :-) I didn't know that unprivileged users are supposed to be allowed to use df on non-mounted filesystems. I think I'll keep it at mode 555 on my machines. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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