Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:56:25 +1200 From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suid/sgid programs Message-ID: <v02120d03b16068197e61@[192.168.1.1]>
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>It would probably be better to pull all of UUCP into a separate install >package, so users who don't use it could simply not install it. This >way, the install package could install all of the UUCP binaries with the >correct permissions, and users who don't need UUCP lower their suid/sgid >impact. I'm one of said users who don't use UUCP, and so far haven't concerned myself with it much. I presume there's no problem for me in removing the uucp group and user? what else is solely related to uucp that I can throw out? Is it a problem that the uucp user has by default a publicly writable home directory? or is this made irrelevant by it's shell being set to uucico? Andrew McNaughton DISCLAIMER: The Entire Physical Universe, Including Andrew McNaughton This Message, May One Day Collapse Back into an ++64 4 389 6891 Infinitesimally Small Space. Should Another Universe andrew@squiz.co.nz Subsequently Re-emerge, the Validity of Statements http://www.squiz.co.nz in This Message Cannot Be Guaranteed. http://www.newsroom.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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