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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bad crypt? Date: 4 Oct 1995 20:45:15 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 23 Message-ID: <44uo8b$404@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <kchan-0110951556250001@adagio.kcc.hawaii.edu> <44rj41$c76@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <44rj41$c76@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >I dunno what the hell MOO is, but only a process with euid == 0 can >actually get passwords in FreeBSD. So you have to make your MOO aware >of being setuid root. (Don't simply turn on the suid bit. Unless the >program is already designed to be suid-aware, you're most likely going >to open security holes!) It's the LambdaMOO server (MOO = Mud, Object Orientated) from Pavel Curtis (sp?) at Xerox PARC. I've got a copy of the server code locally, but haven't had a chance to go digging yet as the imminent 2.1 release has be chasing more important stuff... I'll try to get to this soon. Gary -- FreeBSD Core Member E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org