Re: LYNX-DEV Alleged Lynx security emergency

[Wayne Buttles]

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:

> Wayne Buttles wrote:
> 
> > It will also trash /dev/null (on linux) as root su'd to a normal user.
> 
> If this is true then it's a bug in Linux's Unix security implementation.
> Before you and I go around maligning Linux, though, you might want to
> identify the version you tried it on.  Try on a recent 2.1.3x (whatever
> it's up to...)

I don't have a 2.1.3x kernel.  This was done on 2.0.30 (the latest stable
kernel I know of) and on the only machine that I can feel safe in trashing
stuff like /dev/null and then fix it again before bad things start to
happen.  

Wayne

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