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Sat Sep 5 06:38:47 AEST 1981


>From Lepreau at UTAH-20 Sat Sep  5 06:28:45 1981
Berkeley vmunix has solved some of the security problems inherent in the
setuid mechanism by one simple kernel mod: whenever a file is modified
or chown'ed, the setuid/gid bits go away.  This takes care of the
problem James mentioned, for example.
		Jay
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