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From: dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Why not setuid on shell scripts?
Message-ID: <41@andromeda.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 09:50:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 09:50:40 1985
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Someone alluded to this in another article, but why doesn't
setuid work on shell scripts? What kind of security threat
does it pose??

Please reply by mail.... I'm sure all most of you folks al-
ready know why....

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