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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: root-owned world-writable files
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.013354.5082@sci.kun.nl>
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Jul21.201056.662@newshost.lanl.gov> <61350001@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:33:54 GMT
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- In <61350001@otter.hpl.hp.com> sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) writes:
-
- >I can think of no useful purpose for root-owned world-writeable files; but
- >I'm sure the net's collective wisdom can come up with a few plausible ones...
-
- Many moons ago I had a login on a machine where the sysadmin couldn't think
- of such a purpose either, so he used find(1) to take away world-write access
- from anything root owned. Including /dev/null....
-
- Oh, well.
-
- --
- Have a nice day,
-
- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
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