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Subject: Security question
From: Alejandro Daniel Verri <averri @ delec . fi . uba . ar>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 95 20:45:24 BST
To: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM

Hi

I have a problem with my system administrator.
We have the wrapper like this:
-rwsrwxr-x root Majordom    wrapper*

and The administrator don't want this, because, say, it's not secure for the
system. It's true?
Can a hacker, copy a shell to the majordomo directory an execute like root?
I don't know answer him, because, i'm not a unix guru.
Is there any response for him?

any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english



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