Setuid on expreserve and exrecover

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Jul 19 05:13:35 AEST 1988


In article <298 at occrsh.ATT.COM> rjd at occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis) writes:
\In article <794 at pttesac.UUCP> robert at pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez) writes:
\:Does anyone know the reason for /usr/lib/ex*preserve being
\:set-user-id bin or root ?
\...
\   To the person saying that its distributors should be shot: I do beleive that
\the superuser bug has been fixed! (about eight years ago...)

The OLD bug has been fixed.
Generally the NEW bug has NOT been fixed...
(recently discussed in comp.sys5.bugs)
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I'd rather live in Russia             |Maarten Litmaath @ Free U Amsterdam:
              than in South-Africa... |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!ark!maart



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