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Re: VI wrapper for SUDO? - another bad way ??



On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:44:34PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  You have a misinformation/misinterpretation there.  It's not disabled,
> it's simply not possible in the way scripts are run.  They are passed to
> the program that is given in it's first line, after the #! - or to the
> current shell, if there is no such line.  As *argument*.

Of course it's possible.  Solaris does it, for example.

The security issues do require careful thought, though.

> 
>  Btw, why was this mailed to debian-security?  I don't see anything
> related to debian in that, some general linux (security)
> mailinglist/newsgroup would suit better.

Probably mismailed, intended for debian-security@lists

Jules



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