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Date:      Sun, 14 May 1995 14:24:31 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu, uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
Subject:   Re: Taylor UUCP
Message-ID:  <199505140424.OAA13885@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>uuchk and uuconv, but these are installed in the wrong place
>>/usr/libexec/uucp with the wrong ownership uucp:uucp and the wrong
>>permissions 550.

>Wrong place: agree.
>Mode and permissions: disagree.
>Normal user must not be able to see phones and passwords from
>system configuration.

Phones and passwords are in /etc/uucp, not in libexec/uucp :-).
The programs aren't setuid so they can't read /etc/uucp/* unless
run by root.

Bruce



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