It works everywhere else, but not on AIX
Melinda Shore
shore at theory.tn.cornell.edu
Thu Apr 18 23:00:33 AEST 1991
In article <313 at crcaus.cactus.org> john at crcaus.UUCP (John R. Miller) writes:
>Of course, it's simple
>enough to correct: just un-suid df.
The reason that df is setuid is so that it can read device special
files for the filesystems without making them world-readable. If
you turn off the setuid bit on df it should fail; if it doesn't
you've got a security problem. It *should* be setuid root. There's
no compelling reason for it not to be, and plenty of reasons why it
should.
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Software longa, hardware brevis
Melinda Shore - Cornell Information Technologies - shore at theory.tn.cornell.edu
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