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Re: seduid scripts
| Re: seduid scripts [message #6987] |
Tue, 23 March 1993 07:57 |
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Originally posted by: mh1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
Steve writes:
> > [about /bin/scripter]
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> This sounds an even more unholy mess than one incidence of / -> \ conversion
> in the kernel! Anyway, it's just one more security hole, not that there
> aren't one or two already! :-)
Why is that an security hole? `/bin/scripter' would be just another shell
which happens to be setuid-root (just like `su').
IMHO, having a script launcher is better than putting inconsistencies
in the kernel.
Michael
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Internet: hohmuth@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de
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