2 shell questions before the new year

[Jim McKie]

In article <240 at mtxinu.UUCP> ed at mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
	>The advantages of directly-execable scripts are two-fold.  First,
	>it allows *any* interpreter to be specified for the rest of the
	>file, not just a shell.  Second, the set-uid and set-gid bits
	>are honored.  Voila!  Set-uid shell scripts!

Unless you've fixed your kernel, if you have setuid shell scripts you
have a security hole. Don't send me mail asking what it is.

Jim McKie
mcvax!jim