On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Ralf Lehmann ralflat_private wrote: > Recently we found a security risk caused by powermanagement on Solaris > 2.6. I am pretty sure that it exists on Solaris 2.5 too, though I > haven't tested it. Come to think of it I think I saw that exact behaviour in 2.5 too. > I haven't found a bugdescription or patch from sun. The only workaround > is not to use Powermanagement with a desktop. But who is using > powermanagement anyway? I've been usin powermanager on my sparc at home for 2-3 years now. Very useful when you want to switch off the noise without having to close all the applications. I have another interesting aspect of Powermanager. In solaris 2.6 powermanager is now installed by default including the setuid program usr/openwin/bin/sys-suspend which can be used by any user to suspend the machine and turn off the power. I think this is scary... /lej //// | Dyslexics | |--00 | of the world | C ^ | UNTIE! | \ ~/ ~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~ | |-----3
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