Subject: Re: Addition to force open to open only regular files
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/20/2000 15:08:20
[ On Monday, November 20, 2000 at 16:46:37 (+0100), Wolfgang Solfrank wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Addition to force open to open only regular files
>
> Hmm, if someone writing programs and installing them setuid without
> knowing what he is doing, no amount of babysitting could help them
> (maybe apart from hindering them to type at a keyboard at all).

This wouldn't necessarily help because they'd just go to work for a
vendor like the old SGI where it seemed almost as if the people who
wrote the code never interfaced with the ones who decided which programs
needed to be set-iD!  :-)

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