On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Chris Tobkin wrote: > I doubt that this is OS specific in the installation, but all the installs > of amanda i've seen (and have running here) have runtar suid root, but > perm'd to 7450 (other can't exec it). It may be part of the packages > bundled with FreeBSD.. All of our builds are local compilations from > source... (In fact, all the suid binaries installed by a `make install` > are perm'd o-rwx and have a gid of sys or other) -- All I have for > reference here are solaris and AIX machines.. can anyone else confirm? [hawk-billf] /home/billf/cvswork > ls -l /usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3915 Oct 29 07:46 /usr/local/libexec/amanda/runtar I'm not speaking on behalf of FreeBSD: The FreeBSD port does just use amanda's build scheme and doesn't circumvent it. It also passes to configure: --with-user=operator --with-group=operator I'll look into this, and I've cc:'d the maintainer of the port and the FreeBSD security officer. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerolat_private - billfat_private -
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