Execute permissions on /usr/etc/halt

Patrick Goebel patrick at casbs.stanford.edu
Wed Nov 21 05:00:01 AEST 1990


On our 4/330 running SunOS 4.0.3 I find:

% ls -lFg /usr/etc/halt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       81920 Apr 24  1989 halt*

Don't these permissions imply that any mortal user could halt the system?!

Patrick Goebel--patrick at casbs.Stanford.EDU



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