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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problems with HDB and XENIX V/386 2.3.1
Summary: READ/WRITE to root is dangerous
Message-ID: <857@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Mar 89 04:38:55 GMT
References: <5776@mrspoc.UUCP>
Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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In article <5776@mrspoc.UUCP>, itkin@mrspoc.UUCP (Steven M. List) writes:
> LOGNAME=uucp \
> MACHINE=mrspoc:worf:yar \
> 	COMMANDS=ALL \
> 	READ=/:/usr/local/lib:~ \
> 	WRITE=/:/usr/local/lib:~ \
> 	SENDFILES=yes REQUEST=yes

You realize, of course, that you are giving everyone in the known universe
(that can get to your machine) read and write access to all directories that
are readable/writable to "others"?  This is what the READ=/ and WRITE=/ does.

I believe that you *must* specify FULL path names in the READ and WRITE lists.

derek
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