Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How secure are shell scripts? (summary) Message-ID: <4193@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 12 Oct 90 17:34:34 GMT References: <15059@hydra.gatech.EDU> <7937@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu In article <7937@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes, about secure alternatives to setuid shell scripts: > - acquire a UNIX version that's got the /dev/fd driver and uses > that to launch the script. This is a new one on me. What's /dev/fd supposed to do (on those systems where it's not a floppy disk device), and, if the driver's available somewhere, where can it be obtained? -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +--------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_