Re: caps in elf, next itteration (the hack get's bigger)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
10 Apr 1999 02:26:23 GMT


Followup to: <199904092349.TAA26746@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
By author: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> We don't support setuid scripts, why should we support capabilitied scripts?
> Handle them both the same way: a "wrapper program" which is
> setuid/capabilitied.
>

We *do* support setuid scripts, not just in the (broken) way that some
people believe they should work. bash, on the other hand, doesn't.

-hpa

-- 
"The user's computer downloads the ActiveX code and simulates a 'Blue
Screen' crash, a generally benign event most users are familiar with
and that would not necessarily arouse suspicions."
-- Security exploit description on http://www.zks.net/p3/how.asp

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