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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Fix for kern_execve to allow suid/sgid shellscipts
Message-ID: <BypHMF.LyA@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 3 Dec 92 23:08:38 GMT
References: <4165@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <4165@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>I noticed that suid/sgid shellscripts dont work with the current 
>kern_execve.c. I made a quick hack to do so.

I thought they were generally considered such bad news securitywise that
we didn't want them in anyway?

G
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