All I'm trying to say is that adding someone to group root should not be 
exploitable, at least not without further misconfiguration.

robert

On Sunday 27 August 2006 21:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Robert Connolly wrote:
> > It's an open door for someone in group root to escalate their privileges.
> > Anyone in group root can copy /bin/bash to /bin/ping.
>
> Its a pretty stupid administrator that puts *anyone* in the root group.
>  I've never seen it, but it could be done.
>
>   -- Bruce

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