From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 23:24:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F9B14D90; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA46341; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:24:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA90467; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:24:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199906150624.AAA90467@harmony.village.org> To: "Jason L. Schwab" Subject: Re: reading files. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:46:37 MDT." References: Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:24:21 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Jason L. Schwab" writes: : I heard that there is a way to read any file on a freebsd system as a : normal non-root user.. is this true? if so can some one give me some info : on this? thanks. To the best of my knowledge, this is not correct in the current versions of FreeBSD. There have been bugs in prior versions which might allow this to happen. I don't think there are any in 2.2.8 even. Some of these bugs were very specific and required another user to do something and a race to be lost. Others required a sloppily programmed setuid program, with or without the same races. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message