DO NOT remove all these Suid bits automatically with a script.
lots of them are needed for your system to operate.
(if this kind of stuff was so un-needed, it would just not exist at all).
The problem is finding the ones which are not needed, the ones installed
in bizarre directories,...
look also for suid programs owned by your users, especially exact same
sized
ones (might be produced by a trojan horse runnning on your system)
pascal
> -----Original Message-----
> From: masterpenguin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 9:08 AM
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> Subject: 200 suid programs - why?
>
>
> I recently scanned my system for programs owned by root that
> have the suid bit
> set, and found not one but about 200 such programs. Can
> this possibly be
> justified?
>
> Could there be a problem if I just run a script that removes
> the suid bit from
> all of them? What script would I use for that anyway?
>
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