System V Release 4 ...

Brandon S. Allbery allbery at ncoast.UUCP
Wed Oct 19 03:49:58 AEST 1988


As quoted from <467 at gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> by brwk at doc.ic.ac.uk (Bevis King):
+---------------
| I interpretted the above to mean "setuid/setgid" shells can only be run
| by the default shell, and any attempt to change from that results in the
| setuid/setgid being ignored.
+---------------

Shell scripts probably -- HOPEFULLY -- cannot be suid/sgid.  ALLOWING SETUID
SHELL SCRIPTS IS A SECURITY HOLE.  It's notable that Berkeley itself has
sent out a "mandatory" BSD patch which disables setuid on "#!" executables.

On the other hand, your Sun-blinded friend is probably incurable.  [ 1/2 ;-) ]

++Brandon
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