Re: Incorrect password

"Jonathan Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.neomail.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leon Mayne" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:30 AM


> Thanks for the reply,
>
> OK, it works when I do it on the command line as you suggested, so do I
take
> it there is a problem with suid?
>
> Permissions for /etc/shadow are read only (owner): -r--------

Let's test that possibility:
Create a new file called "whoami.pl" or something with the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl # (or /usr/local/bin/perl or wherever it may live)
$ENV{'PATH'}='/usr/bin/';
print `whoami`;

Save the file, and as root do the following:
chown root whoami.pl
chmod u+sx,go=rx whoami.pl

Log in as a different user (non-root) and run whoami.pl.  It should return
"root".  If not, suidperl seems to be the issue...

jonathan@lab:~> ./whoami.pl # (I made whoami.pl in my user home dir)
root
jonathan@lab:~>

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Also, can you cut n paste a ls -l of the neomail/cgi-bin directory (owners
and permissions) as well as the /var/neomail (or wherever) directory?

(As my system is configured..)
ls -l /usr/local/neomail/cgi-bin
ls -l /var/neomail

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Good luck!  :-)


-Jonathan



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