[mythtv-users] Preemptive Kernel Patch
Nathan G. Grennan
ngrennan at okcforum.org
Wed Feb 19 01:00:56 UTC 2003
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>Now for a picture of me eating humble pie, having just verified that my
>box does disable setuid shell scripts.
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>Looks like sudo is the solution for those who don't run myth as root.
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You can't setuid bash scripts, but you can zsh scripts. perl will also
work if you have perl-suidperl installed, but it will require you to
follow special rules of how to write the script to protect you from
common security problems like the person running it being able to
manipulate the PATH.
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