Re: Security risk with powermanagemnet on Solaris 2.6

[lej () ALGO NET (Lars-Erik Johansson)]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Ralf Lehmann ralfl () darwin muc de wrote:

> Recently we found a security risk caused by powermanagement on Solaris
> 2.6. I am pretty sure that it exists on Solaris 2.5 too, though I
> haven't tested it.
Come to think of it I think I saw that exact behaviour in 2.5 too.

> I haven't found a bugdescription or patch from sun. The only workaround
> is not to use Powermanagement with a desktop. But who is using
> powermanagement anyway?
I've been usin powermanager on my sparc at home for 2-3 years now. Very
useful when you want to switch off the noise without having to close all
the applications.

I have another interesting aspect of Powermanager. In solaris 2.6
powermanager is now installed by default including the setuid program
usr/openwin/bin/sys-suspend which can be used by any user to suspend the
machine and turn off the power. I think this is scary...

/lej

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