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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey guys,
Suppose i run passwd via bash shell. It is a suid program, which temporarily runs as root(owner) and modifies the user entries.
However, when i write a C file and give 4755 permission and root ownership to the 'a.out' file , it doesn't run as root in bash shell. I verified this by... (2 Replies)
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2. AIX
Dear all experts in this forum,
I have faced a audit issue as auditor told that we should not have SUID on /bin/su. As I have checked using Google, I found most of the site only telling that /bin/su should have the permission bit as -rwsr-xr-x but never explain why /bin/su need this permission... (4 Replies)
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3. Cybersecurity
Hello
My system is Debian-503-amd64. After I installed the "lpr" package, I found that some files with SUID bit come from this package. As:
ls -l /usr/bin/lp*
....
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root lp 31800 2008-05-20 /usr/bin/lpq
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root lp 28504 2008-05-20 /usr/bin/lpr
-rwsr-sr-x 1... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ZR_Lang
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I am setting up SUID permissions on a binary.
It gets set for most of the users, however, 1 in 10 users is unable to set these.
For those who works:
> chmod 6555 Test
> ls -l Test
-r-sr-sr-x 1 A B 5524 Nov 15 14:53 Test
For those where it doesn't work:
> chmod 6555 Test... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: vibhor_agarwali
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi I have problem with understanding setuid and setgid
in system I have following users:
$id -a marek
uid=1001(marek) gid=1001(marek) groups=1001(marek),1002(uzivatelia)
$id -a cepi
uid=1000(cepi) gid=1000(cepi)... (7 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm writing this command/script to allow students to vi a private file of mine
in a private directory of mine. chmod 700 dir chmod 660 file
however since i own the directory and file; the script has to be ran by me so to speak, im just not sure how to set about doing this.
the script is... (5 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
Senario: I have previleges to edit a file F but User B does not have sufficient privs to edit it.
In order for B to edit it I tried an indirect way. I created a script to edit F and SUID this script so that B can execute it with the privs of me. But this is not working . can some one help... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pankaj Mishra
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
what is SUID ? can someone explain or point me to a link ?
thanks
simon2000 (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: simon2000
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9. Cybersecurity
Hi all,
Where can i find list of suid and gid files common for the system, let's say RedHat 7.1?
Thank you all
Regards
:D (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: solvman
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10. Programming
Hi all
I'm getting file info through stat( char *filename, struct stat *buf)
Taking all the file attributes to buf->st_mode,
How can i check the suid bit in there, if suid bit mask is 0004000??
Thank you all (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: solvman
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