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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] The MOO problem and set-uid
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 07:25:59 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001310720340.15513@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2001290915500.9191@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Thanks, all, for the responses; it was driving me nuts!  I know the game 
as "cows and bulls" (or perhaps that's because I'm of British origin).

I like Dennis' observation: "On the other hand, suid these days seems to 
be a fairly blunt and dangerous instrument".  I've often believed that if 
you thought you needed set-uid (esp. to root!) you can probably get away 
with set-gid instead.

-- Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 22:18 dave
2020-01-28 23:01 ` bakul
2020-01-29 14:50   ` dot
2020-01-30 20:25 ` dave [this message]
2020-01-30 21:51   ` bakul

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