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.
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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.)
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