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Re: Environment variables (SECURITY: too many new packages)


From: ejb () CYBERSPACE ORG (Edward John Brocklesby)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:18:23 -0400


Hi,

will I assume be issuing identical updates) might like to take a look
at how their own OS handles pointing the following at files only root
can read and running setuid apps. (or setgid usage in some cases such as
Mutt)

On NetBSD, and perhaps other OS's, the file ~/.termcap is also checked,
so ln -s /etc/master.passwd ~/.termcap could get the root password
(I haven't tested this myself)

        -ejb



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