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Date:      Fri, 17 May 1996 02:32:25 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Message-ID:  <199605170932.CAA04114@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 1996 01:48:54 PDT." <199605170848.BAA28627@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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>jkh         96/05/17 01:48:53
>
>  Modified:    sbin      Makefile
>  Log:
>  Large security hole in mount_union, the underlying filesystem for which doesn't
>  even work.  Until pst wakes up, best action deemed to be the simple disabling
>  of this command.

   It would have been better to install it without suid root so that the
permissions get changed when people next do a "make world".

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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