Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is it OK that anyone who has a write access in this directory can > > > become root on the machine? > > > > That question is ambiguous. Do you mean that someone who can write to > > /foo can use that to become root? > > Yes. Say, during an upgrade of the system or package installation, > some given file /foo/bar gets executed under root (thanks to ldd). Please say more? I know of no way that having write to /foo will give priviledge escalation. Bob
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