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Article #478Re: Setuid file
From: Matthew Gream
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 06:17
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 06:17
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Jon P. Knight (jon@hill.lut.ac.uk) wrote: : But you'd need to be root to write to this file anyway... Correct you are, I realised this not long after my post. Something on that day occured that didnt have me thinking straight. ho hum .. : Still, if you don't know what it is, back it up and then delete it. : Better safe than sorry. Yes, if you dont need it, remove it. But possibly it means someone was experimenting with the system, either not succeeding, or failing to clean up his/her trash. Whatever case, it should be the cause of some investigation (using its ctime for a start). Matthew. -- M.Gream@uts.EDU.AU - Matthew Gream - 'Edges have holes next to them .. '
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!att-out!pacbell.com!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!metro!sequoia!acacia!mgream From: mgream@acacia (Matthew Gream) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Setuid file Date: 7 Nov 1992 06:17:01 GMT Organization: University of Technology, Sydney Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1dfn0tINNmjb@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU> References: <1992Nov5.090120.14723@lut.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: acacia.ccsd.uts.edu.au X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5