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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 11:43:43 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Spidey <beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: From BugTraq - FreeBSD 3.3 xsoldier root exploit (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199912161843.LAA73003@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 13:37:17 EST." <14425.12637.308602.637788@anarcat.dyndns.org> 
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In message <14425.12637.308602.637788@anarcat.dyndns.org> Spidey writes:
: Yes. Since I've been looking at setuid's on FBSD, my primary concern's
: been with the ports. I wished there could be some way to have a
: variable in the Makefiles that say "NOSETUID=YES". :))

I like this, at least for PORTS.  Better still would be to go through
the ports and figure out if there is a lesser priv that could be
granted.

Right now the in tree games are setgid games, iirc, just for the high
score stuff.  Maybe it would be a good idea to continue this with the
ports.  You'd have to include a high score file in the package to make
sure that normal users can't access them.

: We should make a a definite list of all the setuid's in the whole port
: tree. Maybe the port maintainers can give a hand?

That would be useful.  The ports are the least audited part of the
tree.

Warner


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