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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:33:05 -0800
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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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