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Re: pid file security



On Tuesday 04 May 2010 08:25:25 Joey Hess wrote:
> Take a look in /var/run. Find a pid file that is owned by a non-root
> user. Now, look at the corresponding init script. What does it stop if
> that non-root user edited the pid file to contain '1'?

The fact that they are not owned by root doesn't mean you can edit them, they 
would probably be owned by a specific user for that daemon and will not have 
write access for others.
Have you found some with write permissions set to all?

Bye
-- 
Salvo Tomaselli


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