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From: patrick@casbs.stanford.edu (Patrick Goebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Execute permissions on /usr/etc/halt
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Date: 20 Nov 90 18:00:01 GMT
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On our 4/330 running SunOS 4.0.3 I find:

% ls -lFg /usr/etc/halt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       81920 Apr 24  1989 halt*

Don't these permissions imply that any mortal user could halt the system?!

Patrick Goebel--patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU