Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 1999 11:33:10 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Only other executables are a.out (nobody uses them these days) and > scripts. But take a look: we do not honour setuid bit on scripts, > anyway!
I know. But that's not a feature - it's a misfeature forced upon us by the fact that "sh" was never very good at understanding security issues.
Let's not use a misfeature as an argument against doing things right.
Linus
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