timo on Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:20:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] permissions and setuid


gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:59:37PM -0400, timo wrote:
> > Would be appreciated.  I like to see it.
> 
> Hey, I really will toss some sample code your way, but I have a
> self-imposed Monday morning deadline to meet on one of my own
> projects.

No rush!  It'd certainly take me a couple of weeks to figure them
out anyway.

> If you, or anyone else on this list, is more anxious, you might
> check out these two documents (a couple of the first links returned
> by a google search for "setuid program"):
> 
> http://seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/scriv/1987a.pdf
> http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_456.html

Interesting.  Thanks.

I see that what I had in mind certainly didn't consider security
and simply isn't possible with a simple shell script.

Back to the drawing board


timo


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