> *** GIS & ESRI/ARC/Info shops take note! *** > > The program "fm_fls" as distributed with ESRI's "ArcDoc" package (7.0.4) > contains a bug which allows us to (a) add somewhat arbitrary data > to any file and (b) changes the permissions of that file to rw-rw-rw-. The program doesn't seem to be there in the version we are running (7.0.2). Downgrading might be an alternative solution. Please correct me if i'm wrong! A quick search in the ArcInfo directories showed 4 other programs suid to root. Do we have a potential for problems? Our GIS-people earlier looked at ESRI's product ArcStorm. Its client-server solution is built on: - a bunch of programs suid to root - the client must be trusted hosts to the server, by means of the /etc/.rhost or /etc/host.equiv file. This made me very uneasy, and i finaly managed to get them to drop their ArcStorm-dreams, and to search for some more security minded solution. It seems that security isn't a high priority issue for ESRI's developers. --- Sven.Wijk@sgu.se