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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: execve() ignores shell script setuid bit Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:48:37 +0100 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 18 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufrawpqvi2.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <30FEC809.167EB0E7@lasorda.princeton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Luoqi Chen's message of Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:22:01 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <30FEC809.167EB0E7@lasorda.princeton.edu> Luoqi Chen <luoqi@lasorda.princeton.edu> writes: [SetUID script not working] : Is this a bug or a feature? Most probably a feature. If it worked, it would be bug. SetUID scripts are a first-rate no-no; shells are just too easily tricked. Write a C program instead. Or use perl. -- | __*__ || Martin Ibert - Fürstenweg 11 - D-13589 Berlin-Spandau - EU | | ----| |---- || martini@heaven7.snafu.de/Fon +49303753479/Fax +49303753699 | | ============= || ---------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | || "Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, | | | | | | | | || will get you killed." (Bruce Springsteen) | PGP key is available from any key server or from <http://www.snafu.de/~martini>