Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:27:25 -0500 (EST) | From | David Schwartz <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: restrict link(2) |
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I think 'rm' should be modified to do this if a program that's set[ug]id is deleted for just that reason. My customized version of 'rm' on all my Linux machines does an 'ftruncate' before it unlinks to achieve much the same effect.
DS
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On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> > If a setuid binary is revealed to be a security problem, why not just > "chmod a-s" it before deleting it? Then it doesn't matter if someone > else has a link to it. > > Dale > -- > Dale R. Worley Ariadne Internet Services > Voice: +1 617-899-7949 Fax: +1 617-899-7946 E-mail: worley@ariadne.com > "Internet-based electronic commerce solutions to real business problems." > >
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