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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Need to let Non-Root use Mount
- In-Reply-To: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de's message of Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:46:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Dec12142530@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <hq8qvm+@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Dec12.054615.11163@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:25:32 GMT
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- MR> == Michael Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>
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- MR> What are you talking about ? On this system (Sparc10, SunOS 4.1.3)
- MR> the shell scripts below work fine with owner=root and perms=4755
- MR> (and there is also a similar version for the floppy disk).
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- Great! Can I have root on your machine? (Don't bother giving me the
- root password, all I need now is an account and about 5 minutes...)
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- I've always wanted access to a Sparc10... :)
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- [Seriously, folks, setuid scripts are a BAD BAD BAD BAD idea.]
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