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- Small bug I discovered in the unix NEWS reader tin/rin.
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- When a user runs rtin/tin a user-list will be created in /tmp/.tin_log
- with mode 0666. and if a user makes a symlink from /etc/passwd (or any
- file) to /tmp/.tin_log and root or another user with uid 0 runs rtin/tin,
- tin will follow the symlink to /etc/passwd and change the mode to 0666.
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- I hope no admin's are stupid enough to run rtin/tin as uid 0. :-)
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- To fix add or change this line in Makefile:
- COPTS = -c -O -DDONT_LOG_USER
- and recompile rtin/tin package.
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