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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Problem with setuid shell scripts under Aegis
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.231003.13961@alphalpha.com>
Date: 27 Apr 91 23:10:03 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.220353.22998@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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In article <1991Apr26.220353.22998@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> panisset@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Jean-Francois Panisset ) writes:

>edacl lock_dir -a yourself prwx

Of course all I have to do is change my path, create a command called
edacl in it which runs a shell, and boom - I'm root.

Fortunately you don't have to worry about this :-).

Aegis doesn't support setuid scripts.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.