From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a challenge
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:33:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10802221033x297bf561he31dd4bdf80441e6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180802221023j472a7953v70c31da9ed1c0563@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:23 AM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
> well, i checked the source. turns out bash 3.2 drops privileges if uid
> != euid and requires the -p flag to allow itself to run in setuid
> mode:
I saw something even more bizarre last night on busy box: it looked
like some library and/or bash was looking for a file called
/etc/sudo_test or some such.
It's just amazing the kind of stuff that the gnu guys are wrapping
around the kernel to try and bail the boat out.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-22 17:53 ron minnich
2008-02-22 17:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-22 18:03 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-02-22 17:59 ` john
2008-02-22 18:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-02-22 18:33 ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-02-22 18:57 ` lucio
2008-02-22 20:02 ` Charles Forsyth
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