non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful
Rahul Dhesi
dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Fri Dec 14 19:12:50 AEST 1990
In <1990Dec13.192712.25225 at cbnewsk.att.com> hansen at pegasus.att.com
(Tony L. Hansen) writes:
>...the numerous security problems in BSD mail
>through the years (using setuid-root, world-writable mail area, or various
>other schemes)
Is there a security problem if the mail spool directory is world-
writable but its sticky bit is set?
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi
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