Re: setuid programms
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 03:27:41PM -0500, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>
> > can someone please tell me, why are these programs setuid :
>
> > /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver
>
> Root-specific console ioctls, or something?
It was setuid to be able to read/write /dev/vcs*. The version
in `hamm' isn't setuid now, because the new `login' chowns /dev/vcs*
when a new user logs in.
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Juan Cespedes
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