Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw
From: ftw@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Broken chmod
Message-ID: <106600022@datacube>
Date: 16 Dec 87 15:25:00 GMT
References: <10850@brl-adm.ARPA>
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Nf-ID: #R:brl-adm.ARPA:-1085000:datacube:106600022:000:897
Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw    Dec 16 10:25:00 1987


alex@umbc3.UUCP writes:
> In article <3067@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> >In article <10841@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> >> Awhile back, somebody lamented the fact that their chmod had somehow
> >> acquired mode 644. Since there was no way to chmod chmod because it wasn't
> >> executable, they loaded it from a backup tape.

> >Why not just compile:
>
> >main ()
> >{
> >	chmod ("/bin/chmod", 0755);
> >}
>
> >and run it (probably suid to root)?
> >-- 
> 	     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> hmmm... would you do this

Probably by logging in as root and then running the program...

<edited>
				Farrell T. Woods 

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