[H-GEN] Script for Arson?

[Trent WADDINGTON]

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Paul Gearon wrote:

> You definately NEVER want this!  It's a really bad idea!  :-)
>
> In such a situation just create yourself a root-owned script with all the
> "write" permission bits turned off, and the setuid bit turned on.  When
> the script is run the process will have root permissions.

That's an even worse idea.  man sudo people.

Trent


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