[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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