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From: Jonas Eriksson (jeat_private)
Date: Sat Nov 20 1999 - 16:23:02 PST

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Hi,

There was an symlink race problem in FreeBSD /stand/sysinstall until
FreeBSD version 3.0

When root is reading help-documents in sysinstall it will create an tmp
file named doc.tmp in /tmp that anyone could symlink to /etc/passwd
for example.


-- Jonas Eriksson
   jeat_private

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