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Re: [SLE] Busybody-Ware Changing SetUID Root Program File Modes
  • From: Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:51:39 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200511141050.58940.srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 14 November 2005 10:21 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Is your /usr/bin/vmware setuid root? Which version of VMware are you
> running?
>
> I think I might have made /usr/bin/vmware setuid root so I could access
> raw disks without having to change _their_ modes.
>
>
> Randall Schulz

SUSE 9.3 with almost all current updates applied, VMware 5.0.0 build 13124
and rkhunter 1.2.7 but no secchk.

~> l /usr/bin/vmware
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root trusted 4714 2005-03-23 05:56 /usr/bin/vmware*

No raw disks under VMware, yet. No permissions problems.

Stan

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