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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to stop future viruses.
Message-ID: <1644@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Nov 88 19:37:45 GMT
References: <16722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5420@saturn.ucsc.edu> <16756@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <16756@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> greg@math.Berkeley.EDU (Greg) writes:
\In article <5420@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes:
\>Unless you're proposing adding another file with usernames and uids, /bin/ls
\>will stop telling you who owns files if /etc/passwd isn't readable...
\...
\2)  Have ls setuid when it wants to read /etc/password, but not when it
\reads the directory itself.

Yeah! Another setuid program! Probably a setuid SHELL SCRIPT!
Hey guys, let's make /bin/sh setuid root, because [...]
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