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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: SysV lp spooler a security hole
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 17:15:57 EDT
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In article <313@pvab.UUCP> robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson) writes:
>The System V print spooler runs as a SUID 'lp' command, which
>means that the files I want to print must be readable by others...

It's annoying but you can "cat foo | lp" if you want to print
a private file (or create a shell script/function/alias to lp
that does the same thing).

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