On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote:

> Alan,
> I don't know if it is "normal", but I always do a
>
> chmod 1777 /tmp
>
> Would that address the security concern? Or is "world readable" the main
> concern? I really HATE 777 and will generally not allow it unless forced
> into it by some weird requirement.
>
if /tmp/strip.$$$ us a symlink to /sbin/init, what happens?

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:56 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Stripping trailing blanks?
> >
> >
> > On Llu, 2003-07-28 at 16:44, Henry, Jeff (J.) wrote:
> > > A nominee for the "Useless use of cat" award:
> > >
> > >         cat $file | sed "s/ *$//" > /tmp/strip.$$
> > >
> > > vs.:
> > >
> > >         sed "s/ *$//" < $file > /tmp/strip.$$
> >
> > Can I nominate your alternative for one line security hole of the week
> > 8)
> >
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