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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!know!mips2!news.bbn.com!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!daemon
  2. From: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: suid for fdformat?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.062444.346@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Date: 30 Aug 92 06:24:44 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
  8. Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond)
  9. Organization: The Internet
  10. Lines: 10
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  12. Should fdformat be installed as a suid program so regular users can format
  13. floppies, or is it more typically found installed so only root can format
  14. floppies?
  15.  
  16. -khw-
  17. -- 
  18. Kevin W. Hammond
  19. hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com
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