Re: Re[2]: snooper watchers
Timothy Newsham (newsham@aloha.net)
Fri, 3 Mar 1995 10:23:23 -1000 (HST)
> Yep hacking suser()'s idea of root's uid is an example of a trivial
> modification, thats trivial to do. What the other guy was on about - loading
> new (non-loadable, obviously) modules into a running kernel is distinctly
> non-trivial in comparison; hence my point that it depends on the mods you're
> making. Thats whay Im interested to hear the two ways.
Hacking the system to have another idea of what a suser() is is easy enough.
What is not easy is finding all the userland programs that depend on
a particular definition of what is and what isnt a super user. For example
if you changed superuser to uid 31337 then all of the sudden sendmail
and nfs bugs let you become root without going through another account
first.
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