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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:55:43 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mark@grumble.grondar.za.@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, mark@grumble.grondar.za, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, jkh@time.cdrom.com, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
Message-ID:  <199606250125.KAA25110@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199606242043.WAA06435@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Jun 24, 96 10:43:36 pm

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Mark Murray stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > -rwsr-xr-x     1 root  users  278528 Jun 18 04:01 root is from the dir 
>      ^
>      | This is a setuid prog. The program is owned by root, and is
>        SETUID, therefore it will run as if it were root. It is
>        probably a shell (bash, sh, csh) renamed to root and setuid.
>        "chmod 755 root" will cut it down to size.

lovely:~>ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 bin  bin  278528 Jun 19 20:34 /bin/sh

The question is, of course, what a setuid-root copy of /bin/sh is doing
in this user's home directory.  Have you fixed the 'modload' hole on this
system yet?

> Mark Murray

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