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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: tbinit suid root (Problem?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.172633.23286@informix.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:26:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.003107.14298@informix.com>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
- Lines: 18
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- Ross Hagglund writes:
- >
- >I was recently talking to a site running online 5.0 and the site
- >administrator mentioned that he didn't like application software
- >which was set user id to root. He was particularly concerned with
- >tbinit since it was "a little more complex than cat(1)". No amount
- >of reassurance would change his mind, coming from a systems background
-
- For what it is worth, after setting ulimit to the sky and umask to 0,
- we revert back to the id of the user running tbinit (usually informix).
- For sqlturbo, it is pretty much the same thing.
-
- Dave
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