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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Preserving file ownerships on OD?
Message-ID: <1782@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 91 04:49:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.220525.5015@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1991Jun21.203134.7927@csus.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun21.203134.7927@csus.edu>
	hoodr@syscube.ccs.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:
>The problem you are running into is actually a security feature.

How?  By giving me READ and WRITE access to other people's data?
Some feature.

>Hypothetical situation:
>(I wish) I own a NeXT.  I have superuser (as well as any other user) access.
>I create an optical disk with a setuid root shell (or any program).

As long as the automounter sets the "nosuid" flag your argument
doesn't hold.

					-=EPS=-