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Re: Reports & Questions



Bob Ham <u9rah@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:

> node@genius:~/proj/flac$ ls -l `which xterm`
> -rwxr-sr-x    1 root     utmp       263004 Mar  4 13:01 /usr/bin/X11/xterm
> 
> It's now not g+s and it does work.. weird (to me, at least.)

Execution of setuid or setgid binaries ignores LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and a
bunch of other environment variables). Honoring the value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
would open huge security holes.

/Niels



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