zrde05@master.trc.amoco.com (Ess) (09/28/90)
After receiving the patch from HP/Apollo for the suid_exec security problem, one problem still comes to mind. (At least, to _my_ mind). What ever was the purpose of this little jewel? Robert Ess zrde05@trc.amoco.com
dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) (09/28/90)
In article <2052@apctrc.UUCP> zrde05@master.trc.amoco.com (Ess) writes: >After receiving the patch from HP/Apollo for the suid_exec security problem, >one problem still comes to mind. (At least, to _my_ mind). What ever was >the purpose of this little jewel? suid_exec is (or should have been) the 'agent' that the Korn shell (ksh) uses to execute s[ug]id scripts. How the hell it was so badly cocked up as to do what it did I'll never know... ;-( Colin -- Colin Dente | JANET: dente@uk.ac.man.ee.els Manchester Computing Centre | ARPA: dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk University of Manchester, UK | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!manchester!dente ... I am the one you warned me of ...
fridman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (fridman) (03/25/91)
In article <507faf9e.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: >> This is a followup to a series of posting I made asking for help >> in getting BSD printing to run. It is a summary of what I did to get >> BSD printing running. > > Why is this so hard? And why isn't it in the Apollo documentation? > > I've added this writeup to the FAQ file, which has moved from > dabo.ifs.umich.edu to dabo.citi.umich.edu (same machine, same address, > different name). It's not difficult, but simply not documented. For example, where does it say how to properly send jobs to a PostScript printer? Where does it mention that you can't set XON/XOFF using stty? Chapter 6 of Managing BSD Software tells you to put all your hosts in hosts.equiv. Why? Having a .rhosts file for daemon works better and provides more securiy. Also this same chaper says nothing of hosts.lpd but is does mention the useless /usr/spool/lpd/servername. and so on, and so on, and so on..... As far as "why isn't it in the Apollo documentation", ?. RF.