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From: karish@denali.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Down in the Dumps (a true story)
Summary: I've written a wrapper for dump.
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Date: 26 May 88 01:00:36 GMT
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In article <22872@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Although the problem you point out is clearly a misfeature/bug (dump
>not checking its arguments carefully enough) I think a better approach
>would be to write shell or c programs to act as wrappers and thus can
>be customized to do whatever checking (including local heuristics) you
>want.

I agree.  I've already done this, for dump.  Several years ago, a
couple of us wrote a C program that was designed to have setuid access
codes, and be run by trusted-but-not-necessarily-skilled operators, who
have group execute access.  I'll mail it to anyone who wants it.

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