Re: PUBLIC CHALLENGE: (was RE: devfs again, (was RE: USB devicealloc
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:01:10 +0100 (BST)
> That is, you've done audit of pine, lpc, screen, wall, write, mail, xterm,
> etc. installed SGID-root, right? Would you mind sharing it? Ditto for
> suid-root man, if you please. Ditto for the method of storing s[u|g]id in
> the first place (doable, but you'll have to screw around with the
> attributes).
A lot of that work has already been done actually. With the utmper tool and
with glibc pty helpers screen and xterm are no longer required to be setuid
if set up that way. Pine can be run with IMAP access only and not setgid
root/mail.
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