Setuid file

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From: Tod McQuillin
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 19:08

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Found this on one of our systems.  Anyone know if there is any way
this could be used to obtain root access?

-rwsr-xr-x  1 root            0 Apr  7  1992 file

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm8t+

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm8t+
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Date: Mon,  2 Nov 1992 14:08:30 -0500 
From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Setuid file
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