Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- Subject: Re: Security Issue ... was[What happens to ...]
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:15:29 +0100
On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 05:11 pm, Darkshadow wrote:
This looks to be the reason. You can do this with any app being run as
root - doesn't matter if it's suid or not.
But launching an app as root from a non-root account requires some basic
knowledge of what you are doing, and knowing the root password in the
first place. suid(root) apps are launched as root no matter what from
non-root accounts, and therefore they are much more dangerous.
-- Finlay