From dbluft@u.washington.edu Thu Dec 1 16:45:33 PST 1994 >From dbluft@u.washington.edu Thu Dec 1 16:45:32 1994 Return-Path: Received: from homer01.u.washington.edu by wells.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA26018; Thu, 1 Dec 94 16:45:32 -0800 Received: by homer01.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA32906; Thu, 1 Dec 94 16:45:32 -0800 X-Sender: dbluft@homer01.u.washington.edu Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 16:45:32 -0800 (PST) From: Douglas Luft To: change-l@u.washington.edu Subject: User Access to Setuid File Systems... Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Our users have been taking advantage of various holes in some of our unix systems. To help plug some of these holes, we will be adding the nosuid attribute to all file systems except / /usr and /usr/local. The file system tables on each system will be changed on December 14'th with the change going into effect when the systems are rebooted. Not all systems will be rebooted on the 14'th, though all systems will (hopefully) have been rebooted by Monday December 19'th. One exception is Alfred1, which will be changed on Monday December 5'th. In late September we made this change to all golding nfs mounted file systems, which seemed to go pretty smoothly. If you feel you need to test an application, the saul8 walker and homer02 systems have already been changed. Douglas Luft .