Re: Unrestrict chown?
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:46:49 +0000
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:29:14PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> > > chown root <some bad file>
> >
> > Harmless unless root chooses to run it (in which case it would be a
> > problem regardless of which user he chown's it to),
>
> If it is executable and setuid then root didn't have to choose to run it.
My original email explicitly assumed that we don't allow this for
setuid files:
"assuming we don't allow this to occur with suid executables, of course"
> Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir@jabber.org | VIM is
Celejar
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