Re: is there a program that goes around turning off setuid root bits?
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 10:34, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> [2002.07.27.1702 +0200]:
> > I have some programs that are not part of the debian system
> > which need to have user setuid root but every once in a while
> > it gets turned off again. Ie.
> >
> > from -r-sr-sr-x to -r-xr-sr-x
>
> find <top-directory> -mode -0400 -print0 | xargs -0 chmod u-s
>
> will do so recursively from <top-directory>
I'm not sure this additional method of performing an unwanted action is
what he was looking for :) (read his original post)
Walter, in /etc/cron.daily/standard there is a section that runs
checksecurity. have a look at its manpage for more details.
-Mark
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