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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 2 May 1991 12:53:31 EDT
From: <DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <91122.125331DWN2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: suid in browser

Here's another interesting little NextQuark.  If I look at the listing for
programs such as /bin/passwd under the browser (with the listing view) the
permissions are -rwxr-xr-x but as we all know this is really a setuid
program.  If you look at the same thing in the terminal (using ls -l )
you see that indeed it is has permissions -rwsr-xr-x.  Anyone know why the
browser hides the SUID information?  Security? (ha ha ha)

Hummm, another vast question for us anal retentive types to ponder.

Dave

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