Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!trillium!hjespersen
From: hjespersen@trillium.waterloo.edu
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Subject: security (was Re: crontab Daemon-from-Hell)
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Date: 4 Jun 89 16:56:10 GMT
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In article <1528@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:

>The original points were actually correct.  But to add onto it, many
>of you will notice that / has permissions of 777.  

Not on _my_ system. Give me any valid login and a / that is 777 and
I'll have root in about 30 seconds. 

-- 
Hans Jespersen
hjespersen@trillium.water.edu
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