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Subject: Re: Solaris patchadd(1) (3) symlink vulnerabilty
From: Paul Theodoropoulos (paulANASTROPHE.COM)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 13:12:48 CST


>I do indeed stand corrected: The only 2 sollutions are:
>1) change to single user mode by means of init S
> and rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.*
>2) shutdown and boot -s into single user mode.

init 6 will work adequately; it's not necessary to power-down (init 5).
/tmp will be properly cleared on an init 6 (since it's normally in ram).

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