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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SUID directories -- security concern?
Message-ID: <1401@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 90 16:21:44 GMT
References: <13946@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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> In article <2946@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>> >>I've never seen any code to make use of a SUID directory, ...

I would suspect that code was written on a SysV 3.x system, that uses
chmod to set the directory permissions to the new protections, and the 
code, now being run pre-3.x, produces bits that aren't understood, although
they can still be set.
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