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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:16:59 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD chpass (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20001004021658.F27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001004021531.B74690@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:15:31AM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040014430.35500-100000@achilles.silby.com> <20001004053422.8A3901F19@static.unixfreak.org> <20001004021426.A74690@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001004021531.B74690@freefall.freebsd.org>

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* Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> [001004 02:15] wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:14:26AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:34:22PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > > > For those not subscribed to bugtraq, it's time to remove the suid bit on
> > > > chpass.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunatly it isn't that easy if you're running with securelevel > 0
> > > since chpass is installed with the schg (system immutable) flag on by
> > > default.  Oh well, guess it's time to reboot some hosts.  :-/
> > 
> > mv it into a mode 000 directory :-)
> 
> Oops, can't do that. Reboot :)

Can you mount something over it?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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