Solaris permission problem(newbie)

[jcallen at narsil.com (Jerry Callen)]

Mike Bilow wrote:
> 
> I don't know what book you're reading, but /tmp and /var/tmp damn well
> ought to be mode 1777 or everyone on the system can become root.
> Especially on a Solaris machine where the exploit is well known and
> publicly available, allowing anything other than 1777 is a recipe for
> disaster.  While we're on this subject, /tmp and /var/tmp had also better
> be owned by root.root, or similar kinds of bad things will occur.

This is all (very interesting) news to me. Can you provide a pointer
to a description of the problem?

For that matter, what sources should a sysadmin use when trying to secure
a system? I've done a fair amount of reading about firewallS & such, but
clearly there's STILL an awful lot I don't know. And what I don't know WILL
hurt me.

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