Re: [LI] Re: What is SUID ?

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Binand and Aditya for the lucid explanation

Rajesh

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> 
> One example of a setuid program is the unix passwd command. As a normal user,
> you cannot write to /etc/passwd, and theoretically cannot change your
> password. But, since this program is run with its setuid bit on, and since it
> is owned by root, for the duration of this program, you are effectively the
> root of the system, and thus can update the password file.
> 
> There are many other examples - try find / -perm 4711 -o -perm 4755 to get a
> list of all setuid programs on your system.
> 
> Binand

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