Re: setuid programms
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> >
> > > If it is suid you can do an exec login from a top level shell.
> >
> > Silly question number two; why would anyone other than root want to
> > do such a thing?
>
> To log in as a different user of course. The need to do so is left as an
> exercise to the sysadmin.
Well... You can just do 'su - <user>', works just as good... I'm removing my
suid bit now...
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