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From: hedrick@topaz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Another kind of su program
Message-ID: <9150@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 21:43:35 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.9150
Posted: Wed Feb 11 21:43:35 1987
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: su, system security

>..  System administrators would have
>to sweep the entire disk for setuid root programs every time a user was
>de-authorized.  And I've seen complaints from people who find it a chore to
>change the root password!

Careful system administrators use "find" to look at all setuid and
setgid programs on a regular basis.  It's not a big chore.  That's
what programs are for.