Re: Help with suid (bash)

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Help with suid (bash)
Date	2022-05-10 14:30 +0200
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On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:58:39AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 07:50:18AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > Aside: even though this is not a Debian specific question, I often use debian-
> > user as my first resource in asking Linux questions.
> 
> It's Linux-specific, though.

I poked around a bit. NetBSD seems to honour it... but grudgingly. Here's
from their sh(1) man page [1]

   BUGS
      Setuid shell scripts should be avoided at all costs, as they are a
      significant security risk.

"At all costs": that's a tall order :-)

Dunno what the other BSDs say. As to the other Unices... which
Unices?

;-)

Cheers

[1] https://man.netbsd.org/sh.1
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Re: Help with suid (bash) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-05-10 14:00 +0200
  Resolved: Re: Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 14:30 +0200
    Followup: Re: Resolved: Re: Help with suid (bash) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-05-10 16:10 +0200
    Re: Resolved: Re: Help with suid (bash) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-05-10 16:50 +0200
  Re: Help with suid (bash) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-05-10 14:30 +0200

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