Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

# Re: [SECURITY] suid procs exec'd with bad 0,1,2 fds

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perl.org)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:49:16 -0400

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According to Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH:
> According to Andrej Presern:
> > However, UNIX is broken with respect to security _by design_
>
> This usually refers to a quote from a paper by DMR about 7RE [...]
> two quotes: one about Unix being intended to share information, not
> hide it, and another which basically said "don't look here for security".

OK, so somebody said "don't look here for security". Does that in
fact constitute being broken by design? Nope; it's just a quote from
a person, not a design issue, much less an analysis of same.

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