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Re: suid script



Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Dang, looks like you are right Joey, at least I can't get a counter
> example working.  I have been forced to write csh scripts on linux that
> are run by suid programs because bash will drop it's privleges to the
> real user id. So, at least is some aspects, bash is worse than others.
> Any idea why the kernel does this (if it really does, I'm still not sure
> of it)? 

Because shell scripts are supposidly very often full of securitry holes when
suid.

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see shy jo


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