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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:

> You could.  If you did, however, you would be silly.  
> 
> The wrapper you give allows anyone who can run it to do anything they want
> as the uid it is setuid to.

If you allow the shell script to be modified, yes. Otherwise, I can not 
see how they could use the wrapper to execute anything but the script 
hard coded therein. Am I being naive?

Set the permissions to 750, chown root.<special group>
And make sure the shell script is non world or group writable.

What's the vulnerablility?

Kevin

> > > -- cut here (wrapper.c) --
> > 
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > main()
> > {
> >         execl("/etc/rc.WHATEVER","WHATEVER",NULL);
> > }
> > 
> > -- end--