Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)

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Subject: Re: /etc/init.d scripts WAS: Re: start-stop-daemon on Debian (fwd)
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:02:01 -0400
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.9904200906120.18026-100000@rina.torah.org>; from Brock Rozen on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 09:08:07AM +0300
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> > > > Consider su -c /etc/init.d/blah

Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> wrote:
> What am I missing?

We have new sysadmins coming into being every hour.  Learning is
heuristic.  Right now, su -c ... is likely to fail for sbin/
commands.

If you change the system so that su -c is practically guaranteed
to succeed you are, in effect, endorsing this practice.  This
leaves you with some responsibility for making it secure.

-- 
Raul

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