Re: sudden (and selective) autism
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 16:26, Jim McCloskey wrote:
[snip]
> A little net searching revealed that this problem can be caused when a
> user with non-root privileges (re)starts the inetd daemon; but the
> output of `last' suggests that nobody was logged in to the system at
> the point at which the problems first arose. Also: is it really
> possible for a non-root user to start a system daemon? The permissions
> on /etc/init.d/inetd suggest that it should indeed be possible:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1764 Nov 18 2001 inetd
>
> But why is it necessary to give this permission to users in general?
Not only does /etc/init.d/inetd have world execute permission,
but also:
$ dir /usr/sbin/inetd /usr/bin/rpcinfo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10052 Mar 21 10:19 /usr/bin/rpcinfo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18540 Nov 18 2001 /usr/sbin/inetd*
Would this be something that one would do when only localhost
network operation is desired?
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