Subject: Re: bin/4489: /usr/games/fish allows setuid games binaries to be created by unprivileged user
To: None <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
From: Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 11/18/1997 13:49:45
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:22:10 +0000
>From: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>

>This isn't just an esoteric problem. I wonder how many people have
>'fortune' in their /etc/profile? Wouldn't take you long to get a root shell.

This is a bit of a red herring; fortune(6) isn't controlled by dm.
-- 
Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>                http://www.shore.net/~mikel
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
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