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Except of course, for root. Chown by root does not touch suid/sgid
bits. But then, if you already have root, system security is not an
issue.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Denny Koovakattu
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:04 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Cc: makbo_at_pacbell.net
Subject: Re: Changing Oracle gid and uid?
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 - 12:10:35 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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