Crackers and Worms

Fri Nov 18 05:04:01 AEST 1988

In article <chomp!> Rahul Dhesi (dhesi at bsu-cs.uucp) writes:
> But at's jobs to be executed are owned by daemon, so isn't being daemon
> just a trivial step away from being root?  Somebody mentioned this
> earlier and nobody contradicted him.
> -- 
> Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

consider the statement contradicted.  daemon is just another non-root uid.

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