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But in practice, chown removes the setuid bit. If not, you could break into systems that way. Make a copy of ksh or sh, set the setuid bit and then change ownership to any other user and then execute the new shell with setuid ;)
Regards,
Denny
-- Denny Koovakattu Quoting Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>:Received on Tue Oct 11 2005 - 12:07:28 CDT
> David Sharples wrote:
> > you would also have to reset the setuid permission on the oracle
> > executable as it would be lost with a chown
>
> Not so. chmod changes file permissions, not chown.
>
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