Subject: Re: Removing dm(1)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@herd.plethora.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/18/1997 16:26:27
In message <199711181848.KAA18783@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
>Ah, thank you.  I was hoping this is what you'd tell me.  Basically,
>now I can give you an example of significant functionality that
>dm(8) provides...

>Curt: I suggest you edit /etc/dm.conf to disallow games that spawn pagers
>until this issue is dealt with.  :-)

ROFL!

I do think it's a real exploit, and I'd like to see a real fix...

My suggestion:  Add a flag to dm that says that a game knows about and
needs setuid.  If it isn't explicitly set, the game runs as the user.
Worst case, we lose high score files until the list is updated.

-s