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[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Mar07.091123.13033 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> (Actually, I had a fun few minutes, because it kept telling me that I had
> write permission to /etc/passwd without having to be root [I made my binary
> suid root].  If occurred to me, after a while, that the file was group
> writable, and, now that multiple groups work, I happen to be in the
> "correct" group to write to it.  Neat...)

Isn't this a security hole? I mean, once you can write to the password file
you have the keys to the kingdom. I hope this goes away when you turn off C2.
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