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- From: boender@dutiws.TWI.TUDelft.NL (Hildo Biersma)
- Subject: Re: seduid scripts
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 13:34:04 MET
- In-Reply-To: <9303171430.AA02344@irz202.inf.tu-dresden.de>; from "Michael Hohmuth" at Mar 17, 93 3:30 pm
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- Hi,
-
- I think setuid scripts are absolutely evil, and should be avoided
- at all cost. First of all, there's the security implications.
- (Not that MiNT is secure now, but we can try...). A setuid-root
- shell scripts can be abused in so many ways we should leave it out.
-
- Secondly, I think all #! interpretation should take place in the kernel.
- The library is not the proper place for this to happen, for then
- it will also have to built into the desktop, any other programs, etc.
- If it's built into the kernel, all programs will be able to profit.
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- Bye, Hildo
-