From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 14 9:28:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from genesis.k.pl (genesis.korbank.pl [195.117.162.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF70337B66F for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ns88@localhost) by genesis.k.pl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9EGSTx43541; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:28:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:28:29 +0200 From: Tomasz Paszkowski To: Nora Etukudo Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why cu i suid && sgid Message-ID: <20001014182829.B877@genesis.k.pl> References: <20001014124428.A7367@genesis.k.pl> <20001014182342.A24430@mail.nxe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001014182342.A24430@mail.nxe.de>; from nora@sappho-net.de on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:23:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:23:43PM +0200, Nora Etukudo wrote: > > Then all users but 'uucp' can't operate with 'cu' on the device owned by > 'uucp'. The s-bit in the owner rights indicates that the 'cu' always > operate as user 'uucp' regardless of which user it has started and > therfore has the permisson for this device. May be we can talk about the > reason for s-bit in the group rights. But think about the situation when you have cisco console connected to the serial port. Everyone can operate on it. -- _ _ _ _ _ / \ | | / / / \ / \ --- Tomasz Paszkowski ------------------------------ | |\ \| | \ \ |/ \||/ \| === IPv4://3575244866 === IPNg://3ffe:8010:59::2 === /_/ \__/ /_/ \_/ \_/ -------------------Powered by Brain and Keyboard --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message