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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Dynamic Slip/FreeBSD
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<<On Mon, 1 May 1995 13:27:39 -0400 (EDT), Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> said:

> slip-start script contains 

> /usr/sbin/sliplogin `tty | tail -b 6` 

> and has permissions 2555 

The set-id bits are meaningless on shell scripts.

-GAWollman

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