Bug 7511 – nwsfind, ncpmount, ncpumount does not work without SUID bit

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Bug 7511 - nwsfind, ncpmount, ncpumount does not work without SUID bit

Summary:	nwsfind, ncpmount, ncpumount does not work without SUID bit

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ncpfs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Duplicates:	6609 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	1999-12-02 10:42 EST by Milan Kerslager
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-01-11 16:08:15 EST
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Description Milan Kerslager 1999-12-02 10:42:40 EST

As I found, nwsfind (for slist & etc), ncpmount and ncpumount need SUID
bit to be set to work properly for normal users. Because this is FAQ I
think that this bit should be set on files mentioned above (in RPM
package). I already asked P. Vandrovec (the developer of ncpfs) if this is
secure and he replied that it was. He knows NWDSCanonicalizeName and
NWDSAbbreviateNamethat functions are not safe but they are not used in
these utilities. So what do you think?

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-01-11 16:08:59 EST

*** Bug 6609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***nwsfind needs to be, and it's fixed in 2.2.0.17-1,
which will be in the next Raw Hide.

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