Re: Hi all

[manas garg <manasg@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 sudheer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> > 
> > No. This will work fine. There might even be a legitimate use for
> > this falility (root using something like 
> > setuidshell -c grep someone /etc/sudoers 
> > while in a non root login).
> > 
>    could you please elaborate on this .
> 
> i'm using SuSE5.1. i find, just  by copying the shell with root
> privilegs doesn't allow the user to become the root(ofcourse ,a simple
> C program could do all the trick) .When i invoke this copied shell
> from a normal user's a/c ,the shell runs, but with power of that
> user and not the root.
> 
> sudheer 

Did you do ##chmod a+s /copied_shell ??

If not, it won't work..


Manas


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