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From: pvo1478@neptune.uucp (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: mach_init--an interesting bug
Summary: anyone can execute mach_init
Keywords: -rwxr-xr-x  1 root       49152 Nov 16 13:34 mach_init*
Message-ID: <8800@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 89 00:12:27 GMT
Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU
Reply-To: pvo1478@oce.orst.edu (Paul O'Neill)
Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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Any user can execute /MyDisk/Unix/SingleUser/etc/mach_init.
Very unpleasant for anyone else who is logged in.

Any reason this should be world-executable?


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251