Re: chmod 000 .rhosts - works?

[jabr () bcs org (John Abreau)]

On Mon, 17 Oct 1994, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Better still are the versions of expreserve that do a
> system("mkdir ....");
> Create a file called "mkdir" and put "." in your path.
>
> Just out of interest, what is needed to make it safe?  Is making it
> non-setuid/setgid and /usr/preserve mode 1777 sufficient?

I'd think the most straightforward fix would be to replace the uses of 
system(...) in the source. In the example above, replace
        system("mkdir foo");
with
        mkdir("foo", 0700);

(This assumes, of course, that you have sources...)

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