"Top 3" 3.0e.1U bugs

Karl Lehenbauer karl at sugar.uu.net
Tue Jan 31 10:08:44 AEST 1989


In article <578 at noe.UUCP>, eps at noe.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> 2. passwd: missing ulimit call.
>    => ulimit 0;passwd  nukes /etc/passwd

> I'd appreciate independent verification (also on other SysV).
> Complaints to the vendors, followups to the newsgroup.

It nukes it on Bell Tech System V/386 3.0...

mailx does the setuid(getuid()), though...
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