Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS and setuid programs fails on 2.1 | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:11:34 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Kees Bakker wrote: > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > Alan> Ok send me the example again (I didnt keep it - I should have) I'll look at > Alan> it this end > > #!/bin/sh > > file1=${1-/mnt/kernel/temp} > user=hanneke > > # Now execute a suid program by some other user. > su $user -c date > $file1
What do you expect?
The file gets opened by the shell here, and gets written to by $user. That might fail on NFS, indeed.
Use su $user -c "date > $file1" or something like that to let $user open the file.
I certainly missed the beginning of this thread.
Rogier.
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