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Re: recent gpm DoS issue



On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:41:51PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 03:37:30AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> > 
> > Yup.  Until we have a package which sets restricted permissions on its
> > own, when it creates the socket.  :-{
> 
> we we could just fix the DoS in gpm, no?

i just tried changing the permissions on /dev/gpmctl to mode 0600
root.root and gpm still works just fine, at least for what i use it
for (simple copy and paste of text, nothing more).  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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