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From: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Set-uid shell scripts
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 08:43:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFWeb9JFaDAAD-6Bruh1eO-MddAJ17nZTWeTP8syXpPqa-CM9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1908041714460.38830@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 08:37, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> Is it just me, or did someone actually implement set-uid scripts?


Yes, they were a thing for a while, until someone realised that you could
do:

ln -s /bin/scriptname ./-i
"-i" # assuming that "." is already in your path

...and get a root shell.  Source: I did this on (ISTR) 4.1 or 4.2BSD.

    -a

-- 
http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-04  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-04  7:36 Dave Horsfall
2019-08-04  7:43 ` Alec Muffett [this message]
2019-08-04 15:58   ` Noel Chiappa
2019-08-04 16:30     ` Michael Kjörling
2019-08-04 16:48       ` Alec Muffett
2019-08-04 17:48         ` Michael Kjörling
2019-08-04 19:45           ` Alec Muffett
2019-08-04 16:50     ` Rico Pajarola
2019-08-04  7:46 ` arnold
2019-08-04 20:18 Noel Chiappa
2019-08-04 20:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-04 20:42   ` Richard Salz
2019-08-04 23:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-04 21:18 Norman Wilson
2019-08-04 21:27 Norman Wilson
2019-08-06  8:28 ` jason-tuhs
2019-08-06  9:55   ` arnold
2019-08-06 22:48   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-06 22:56     ` ron minnich
2019-08-07  1:21     ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found]       ` <40c92e85142fe7e3@orthanc.ca>
2019-08-07 21:33         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-08  6:39           ` Peter Jeremy
2019-08-07 12:56     ` Chet Ramey
2019-08-07 21:40       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-08  5:16         ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-14  5:41           ` Efton Collins
2019-08-05  0:13 Noel Chiappa

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