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From: berry@solaria.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Another kind of su program
Message-ID: <1907@mordor.s1.gov>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 19:45:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 19:45:04 1987
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Keywords: su, system security

In article <288@acornrc.UUCP> bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman) writes:
> System administrators would have
>to sweep the entire disk for setuid root programs every time a user was
>de-authorized. 

System administrators should do this *anyway* on a regular basis.
Good security is *not* easy!



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