Re: SUID program removal

From: Michael Kjorling (michael@kjorling.com)
Date: 10/19/01 

Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:10:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Michael Kjorling <michael@kjorling.com>
To: Focus-Linux <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: SUID program removal
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0110191309370.22045-100000@varg.wolfpack>

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And of course, one should never, never, NEVER make ANY system
executable world writable! I prefer to keep them at root.root 0555 or
at times even 0511 unless there is specific reason to do otherwise.

Michael Kjörling

On Oct 17 2001 20:15 -0600, Richard Garand wrote:

> There's probably a simpler way, but you can just chmod it back to the
> original properties (or whatever you want). A short demonstration:
> richard@deusexmachina:richard$ chmod 4777 RAWRITE.EXE
> richard@deusexmachina:richard$ ll RAWRITE.EXE
> -rwsrwxrwx 1 richard richard 36064 Oct 12 22:41 RAWRITE.EXE*

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