Re: Irix tape devices + logs + su

[basv () SARA NL (Bas van der Vlies)]

On 17-Dec-98 Harhalakis Stefanos wrote:
>  I don't know if those are known stories.
> Anyway... on Irix 6.4 the tape devices (in /hw/tape) may be created with
> false permissions. I think that they are created using the current umask.
> (When using su, the current umask will not change (unless there is a umask
> entry in root's .cshrc)). So it is possible to have those devices with
> mode 644 or even 666, which is bad news, because anyone could use
> xfsrestore to get any file.
In IRIX 6.3 and higher you can specify what the mode of the device file is with
the file /etc/ioperms
   /dev/rmt/*   0600    root    sys
   /dev/console 0644    root    sys

See man ioconfig for more info.

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