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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Setuid on expreserve and exrecover
Keywords: setuid, vi, expreserve, exrecover
Message-ID: <1319@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 18 Jul 88 19:13:35 GMT
References: <794@pttesac.UUCP> <298@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <298@occrsh.ATT.COM> rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis) writes:
\In article <794@pttesac.UUCP> robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez) writes:
\:Does anyone know the reason for /usr/lib/ex*preserve being
\:set-user-id bin or root ?
\...
\   To the person saying that its distributors should be shot: I do beleive that
\the superuser bug has been fixed! (about eight years ago...)

The OLD bug has been fixed.
Generally the NEW bug has NOT been fixed...
(recently discussed in comp.sys5.bugs)
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