Re: security hole in uuq -d

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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1988 17:41

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In article <43800007@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
     There is a serious security hole in the 4.3 bsd /usr/bin/uuq
     program that allows everyone to delete anyone's UUCP jobs.

I recommend the following:

     # chown uucp.daemon uuq
     # chmod 101 uuq; chmod g+s uuq

This makes uuq set-gid to daemon.  Then make sure all your uucp jobs
are in files that are readable by daemon but not writable by it.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: security hole in uuq -d
Message-ID: <5235@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 17:41:39 GMT
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