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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news.eden.com!arlut.utexas.edu!usenet From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Setuid Problem Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:07:59 -0600 Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3288A0DF.79B6@arlut.utexas.edu> References: <566hj6$15l@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> <32882ec6.691489491@news.u-net.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seadevil.arlut.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/730) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:50245 comp.unix.questions:91124 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5260 Jim wrote: > > username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Im having problems getting setuid to work on a bsdi 1.1 system > >I have set the owner of a file as root and the "s" bit as > >follows: > > > >-rwsrwxr-x 1 root wheel 1815 Nov 3 22:59 file.pl > > This only works for compiled files not editable scripts. > > Jim. You would have to recompile your kernel for setuid scripts.... So it is possible to have setuid scripts, but that presents a BIG security problem =( Ian Fink fink@arlut.utexas.edu