Aucbvax.3002 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Sep 8 08:39:05 1981 /usr/spool/mail >From z@CCA-UNIX Tue Sep 8 08:22:27 1981 We allow a chown to an suid program without clearing the suid bit, but we don't get into the problem with executable root programs because our mail program has been fixed to do a chmod of the mail file to 0600. This seems to be a nice fix to make in general. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.