Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:02:13 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: dima@rdy.com, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Message-ID: <200008112102.OAA19233@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <200008112058.NAA92441@netplex.com.au> "from Peter Wemm at Aug 11, 2000 01:58:24 pm"
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Peter Wemm writes: > > > > How do you see that resulting in _more_ security holes? > > If /usr/bin/suidperl doesn't exist and some program referes to it, it will > > give you "command not found" (or similar) message. > > Because people start writing setuid "#! /bin/suidsh -p" scripts instead. > And that is outright suicidal as it is guaranteed exploitable. It is also > the very reason that suidperl exists. Following that logic people will nuke /usr/bin/su and replace it with suid to root shell. People don't do it. They aren't _that_ stupid. > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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