Re: root-owned world-writable files

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From: Hans Mulder
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:33

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In <61350001@otter.hpl.hp.com> sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) writes:

>I can think of no useful purpose for root-owned world-writeable files; but
>I'm sure the net's collective wisdom can come up with a few plausible ones...

Many moons ago I had a login on a machine where the sysadmin couldn't think
of such a purpose either, so he used find(1) to take away world-write access
from anything root owned.  Including /dev/null....

Oh, well.

--
Have a nice day,

Hans Mulder			hansm@cs.kun.nl

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