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From: mitch@stride1.UUCP (Thomas P. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Is book (was A security hole)
Message-ID: <744@stride.Stride.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 88 23:14:55 GMT
References: <181@wsccs.UUCP> <722@rivm05.UUCP> <478@minya.UUCP> <725@rivm05.UUCP>
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Summary: read Wood and Kochan

In article <725@rivm05.UUCP> ccement@rivm.UUCP (Martien F v Steenbergen) writes:
>In article <478@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>> In article <722@rivm05.UUCP>, ccement@rivm.UUCP (Martien F v Steenbergen) writes:
>> > be suspicious of any setuid program.
>> 
>> Uh, I'm not sure I believe all this.  I mean, I understand ...
* Believe it this is real. *
>
>enough. Perhaps there exists a book which describes a lot of Unix security
>related topics. I'd love to have one.

You are in luck.  I have a good one in front of me.
From Hayden Books Unix(R) System Library:

	UNIX (TM) System Security
	by Patrick H. Wood and Stephen G. Kochan
	Hayden Books, Indianapolis, Indiana,  46268, USA
	ISBN: 0-8104-6267-2  (my copy was $34.95)

Yes it covers a permutation of the same trap that has been making
this news group hummmm.

Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
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