🚀 go-pugleaf

In <39e3d202@usenet.per.paradox.net.au> John <jcs@possum.os2.ami.com.au> writes:

]In aus.computers.linux David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
]> Hi all;

]> Sorry, Iam running redhat 6.2. If I login as root on tty1 and login as
]> root on tty4, and setuid from tty4, then exit/reboot cause this.

]> As I was runng linuxconf on tty1 (to veiw the mail que[?]) and testing
]> users email account on tty2. So as I did not want to waste time
]> waiting for my old 486 to exit out of linuxconf then rerun it, I
]> relogin thru tty4.


]I've heard of linuxconf doing this to people. I don't run linuxconf;-)


If you click on 
"preview what has to be done"
you will see one of the lines
Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/pppd from 105755 to 104755
which removes suid. It is totally stupid.
DO NOT CLICK ON "Activate Changes" All it does is cause trouble. 
Just Quit.
This is one aspect of Linuxconf that is just plain stupid.
I have severe doubts that the writers of linuxconf actually know
anything about security. I know that the people at redhat do not. They
make pppd not suid root, when it is almost useless without that, and
then they make a whole bunch of games suid root.