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It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability!

Posted by timothy on from the proactivation dept.

pmeunier writes "Apple's security stance is stunning. In the latest (10.3.9) update, Apple removed two capabilities because they pose security risks. One of them is the capability to run setuid and setguid scripts (the other was actually unused). Can other commercial OS vendors (how many are there :) adopt a similar stance? Will you be inconvenienced by the inability to run setuid scripts on MacOS X? Which other features/capabilities (in any OS) would you like to have removed?"

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  1. Derrrrrr.... by JHromadka · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Um, how about an explanation on what setuid and setguid actually does first, and then I'll tell you if I'm stunned.

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