Re: root-owned world-writable files

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From: Tim Ramsey
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:00

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jfowler@beta.lanl.gov (John C. Fowler) writes:

>Only if the system trusts the contents of the file, or root executes it,

How do you get a complete list of files that are trusted by root, or by
programs that root trusts (that is, are setuid root)?

Much easier to simply not have world-writable files owned by root.

-- 
    Tim Ramsey, 913.532.6750
    Department of Mathematics
    Kansas State University

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Date: 21 Jul 1992 16:00:16 -0500
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