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Re: Setuid file

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From: Robert Earl
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:11
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valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks) writes:

| I wonder if there's any creative applications for a mode
| 4755 /dev/null?

Besides breaking applications that expect to be able to write to it,
and don't run as root?  :-)
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robert earl          |
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From: chupchup@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Robert Earl)
Subject: Re: Setuid file
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