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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!piggy!chupchup
  3. From: chupchup@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Robert Earl)
  4. Subject: Re: Setuid file
  5. Message-ID: <chupchup.721559470@piggy>
  6. Organization: (EVIL!)
  7. References: <1d9ggiINNsfb@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU> <1992Nov9.183358.12335@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Nov10.151709.5734@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <9449@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
  8. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:11:10 GMT
  9. Lines: 11
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  11. valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) writes:
  12.  
  13. | I wonder if there's any creative applications for a mode
  14. | 4755 /dev/null?
  15.  
  16. Besides breaking applications that expect to be able to write to it,
  17. and don't run as root?  :-)
  18. -- 
  19. robert earl          |
  20. rearl@ucsd.edu       | "I got a bottle of tequila, baby, who needs friends?"
  21. rearl@piggy.ucsb.edu |   --Johnette Napolitano, Concrete Blonde
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