david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) (07/02/87)
Ultrix 1.2 uudecode insists on creating files with root as the owner. Is there
a common solution that we're missing? We don't have sources.
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BITNET: T004550@UHCCMV PLATO: david/p/hawaiipdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) (07/03/87)
In article <644@uhccux.UUCP> david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) writes: >Ultrix 1.2 uudecode insists on creating files with root as the owner. Is there >a common solution that we're missing? We don't have sources. uudecode is generally installed setuid to 'uucp', ostensibly so that you can mail uuencoded files to the user 'decode' on your machine, and have them decoded into the uucppublic spool directory. It will create the files as owned by whoever owns uudecode. On my Ultrix 1.2 system, the system installation stuff installed uudecode setuid to 'uucp'. If your uudecode is owned by 'root', I'd change it pretty quick since it opens up horrible security holes. Better yet, if you don't care about mailing files to 'decode', then take the setuid bit off of uudecode entirely. --Pat.
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (07/03/87)
uudecode works correctly here. The protection on it is 111 and it is owned by uucp. Now, we are running Ultrix 2.0, but I know that it worked correctly under 1.2 here also. Check your modes. Fred
davew@gvgpsa.UUCP (Dave White) (07/03/87)
In article <644@uhccux.UUCP> david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) writes: >Ultrix 1.2 uudecode insists on creating files with root as the owner. Is there >a common solution that we're missing? We don't have sources. >-- Ultrix 1.2, as distributed, has uudecode file permissions set as 4755 (set UID on execution). Do a "chmod 755 uudecode" while logged in as root and this should solve your problem. -- =================================================================== Dave White Grass Valley Group, Inc. P.O. Box 1114 Grass Valley, CA 95945 UUCP: ...!tektronix!gvgpsa!davew PHONE: +1 916 478 3052
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) (07/03/87)
There is a solution ... remove the setuid bits from /usr/bin/uudecode (or wherever it lives). -- ----- David Herron, cbosgd!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET, david@ms.uky.edu ----- (also "postmaster", "news" & etc.) ----- bsmtp-users@ms.uky.edu for bsmtp discussion ----- bsmtp-users-request@ms.uky.edu for administridiv4