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- Subject: COPS messages
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.123207.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
- From: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu
- Date: 4 Sep 92 12:32:07 -0800
- Organization: Sonoma State University
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- Greetings:
- Just completed several runs of COPS.....
- was wondering about the following messages in the Security report.
- **** misc.chk ****
- Warning! /usr/bin/uudecode creates setuid files!
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- **** ftp.chk ****
- Warning! operator should be in /etc/ftpusers!
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- **** dev.chk ****
- Warning! NFS file system exported with no restrictions!
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- **** pass.chk ****
- Warning! Password Problem: Guessed: ftp shell: /bin/csh
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- **** passwd.chk ****
- Warning! Password file, uid > 8 chars
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- Each of these messages obviously expresses a security concern however
- I'm a little confused about the specific nature of the problem being
- addressed and what might be done to correct it.
- dmc
- mccalld@sonoma.edu
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