From: Gerald Heim (heim2@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: 02/26/93


From: heim2@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNUPLOT 3.2 uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu
Date: 26 Feb 1993 13:50:29


Hi

People that want to install gnuplot with builtin vga-driver
should be aware that gnuplot has a SHELL-ESCAPE!
It should never ever been installed suid root!

As suggested by hank@Blimp.automat.uni-essen.de, permissions
should probably look like that:

-rwxr-sr-x 1 bin mem 238596 Dec 4 11:02 /usr/local/bin/gnuplot*
crw-rw---- 1 root mem 1, 2 Aug 29 23:48 /dev/kmem
crw-rw---- 1 root mem 1, 1 Aug 29 23:48 /dev/mem

... if you don't want others to become root w/o password :->

gjh