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Raider wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Samarth Kumar wrote:
> > Hello Everybody,
>
> Hi!
>
> > I am running Slackware, while trying to run netscape from X, I got a
> > warning message that the program is a suid-root program. What exactly is
> > the meaning of suid??? I know that it has to do something with rights of
> > users, but I am not sure.
>
> That means that Netscape (aka Mozilla) runs as if you were root.
> This can be a possible security hole.
> suid makes programs run as they were run by their owner. So if I
> have an application that is owned by user joe, and I (raider) I run it
> suid joe, the process can do anything joe can do, not what raider can do.
> This is used for root capabilities mostly.
>
> > Is there any command that will tell me what is the version of the kernel I
> > am using, and also how do I change the message that appears on the screen
> > if somebody tries to telnet in to the system?
>
> uname -r will show the kernel version. For more details check the
> man page for uname. This is a quite useful tool.
> That is the /etc/issue.net file that is shown. It was just
> explained on the list how to customize it. I mean just to edit it isn't
> enough because distributions use to rewrite it at boot time. If I recall
> well it's the rc.S file... don't know for sure because I have RH right
> now.
>
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
