On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:36:36PM +0000, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Phillip Hofmeister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What's this about? _____________________ > vvvv > > > 2. Remove the setuid bit from the XaoS binary by executing the > > following command: > > > > # chmod -s /usr/lib/games/abuse/abuse.* > > (noticing -rwsr-xr-x root root 378888 Jul 27 17:34 /usr/bin/xaos) > ^
Yikes. I recommend: dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 755 /usr/bin/xaos This is permanent across upgrades, removals, and reinstalls of the xaos package. (--update tells statoverride to effect the change itself.) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
