From: Phil Farrell (farrell@pangea.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 15:21:06 EDT
Hi sysadmins,
Anybody known the function of /usr/lbin/chgpt? I'm running Tru64 UNIX
v4.0g, patch kit 3. I see that this program is loaded as part of the
OSFBASE445 subset. Of course, there is no man page or any other docs
I can find describing this program. "strings" yields no information.
This is a setuid root program, and I noticed one of our users recently ran
it from a login that looks funny. Always worried about hackers here.
I'd like to know what this program does and whether I even need to
leave it setuid root.
(Editorial comment: /usr/lbin is full of programs that have absolutely
no documentation on the system. Even though these programs are not
intended to be run by users, I think it is completely unacceptable
for Compaq/HP to provide a directory full of programs, some of them
setuid root, with absolutely no information about what they do or
how they are normally used. Come on, it can't be that hard to write
some minimal man pages!).
-Phil Farrell, Computer Systems Manager
Stanford University School of Earth Sciences
farrell@pangea.stanford.edu
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