Re: Does the setuid mechanism actually work?

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, George Pajari wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something (and that is certainly the most likely
> situation), the setuid trick on the LNX-BBC depends upon the setuid bit
> of the setuid-wrapper script being respected and this seems not to be
> the case. As a result the "setuid" programs in /setuid/bin/ actually run
>   as the user, not necessarily root.
>
> Is this a known issue? Is there a fix? (Searches of the bug database are
> not currently working so I cannot try to answer my own questions.)

Which version of the bbc are you using?  That is, is setuid-wrapper a
shell file or a binary?

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