[olug] chmod u+s
Jay Hannah
jay at jays.net
Thu Jun 3 23:37:34 UTC 2004
On Jun 3, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> The question you need to ask yourself is "does the suid bit work on
> shell scripts?". It doesn't here (Debian "testing" aka sarge, kernel
> 2.6.7-rc2-bk1)
Hmm... Perhaps I hit the "write a C wrapper!" phenomenon again? This
seems to come up for me every 3 years or so. It continues to strike me
as remarkably silly for shell scripts to not work and little 3-line C
wrappers to work. I've never understood why C wrappers would ever be
considered more secure.
j
Omaha Rumor Mongers
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