excuse my ignorance but can someone give me the readers digest of:
1. what is setuid? (set user id?)
2. why it is used
3. why is a setuid of root bad or not bad.
4. What to do if you have programs that are setuid root.
thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lavender" <brian@brie.com>
To: "Lug Nuts" <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: [lug-nuts] one liner again
> I found this on
>
> http://www.hackernews.com/orig/practice.html
>
> On most systems, if you would like to see all of the files on it that
> are SUID root, issue this command:
>
> $ find / \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 ! -type d \) -exec \
> ls -ldb {} \; >> output.log
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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