Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!umbc3!alex
From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: /etc/shutdown permissions
Message-ID: <1349@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 19:47:23 GMT
References: <234@safari.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Distribution: unix-pc
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In article <234@safari.UUCP> dave@safari.UUCP (dave munroe) writes:
>In release 3.5 at least, /etc/shutdown has permissions -rwxr-xr-x, which is
>obviously a bad idea.

	Yea, but does it really matter? I think that you have to be root
to have /etc/shutdown work anyway, because the shutdown system call 
(in syslocal(5)) must be executed by the root user.

	Now -rwsr-sr-x would be a different story....




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