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From: davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: special files as .plans?
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Message-ID: <361@pacer.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 17:34:11 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.224727.26823@boingo.med.jhu.edu> <7391@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Pacer Corp., Bothell, WA
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In article <7391@star.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
> He forgot to deal with normal files.  The real bug is fingerd running as
> root: root can open any (local) file...  (Think about it!)

And how about a nice symbolic link to /etc/passwd?

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David Barts			Pacer Corporation, Bothell, WA
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