Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: rmdir has become blind Summary: found glasses for rmdir Message-ID: <595@mks.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 88 16:27:09 GMT References: <579@mks.UUCP> <474@hvrunix.UUCP> <586@mks.UUCP> <13220@ncoast.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 20 In article <13220@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: > stuff not necessarily relevant, but it reminded me to post this... I finally figured out what had happened to rmdir. It's fixed not, but it raises another question. The problem was that, although rmdir was chmod'ed to setuid, it was owned by bin instead of root. I must have done that when I was doing some housecleaning. The question is this: what is the purpose of the bin userid? Why not just have all the stuff owned by root? Would there be a possible security hole? (Remember, 'though I've used Unix, and now MINIX, I've never had to do all this sysadmin stuff before. No major flames, please.) -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043