[casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM wrote]: > > Just to add my two cents to the discussion: > > - this is a known problem > So why wasn't it more publically announced. Sun could easily have issued a > new binary very publically and without saying what they had fixed. > Mark Graff relayed to me that Sun has known about this for about 2 weeks or so. [casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM wrote]: > > - it is fixed in 2.5 (by using fchown, not chown, both versions of ps) Apparently this is *NOT* fixed in the 2.5 release. At least not the copy I have. And I believe someone else has contested to this fact as well. > So why didnt you tell people instead of negligently leaving them exposed This is the old full-disclosure debate. I don't think we should be getting into this here. > Otherwise known as the majority of people who are less technically clued up. > Vendors need to improve their methods. > > Alan --Scott chasin@crimelab.com