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Re: Helper Tool on FireWire

Subject: Re: Helper Tool on FireWire
From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:25:20 +0100

On 25/06/06, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:

> Why does your tool need to run from the boot partition?

It does not. But it needs to run setuid root, and this seems not to
work on FireWire-non-boot-partitions.


Of course. Otherwise, I could take a FireWire drive, hook it up to my
Mac, put a tool on it, make it setuid root, then connect my drive to
your Mac and boom! Instance root access.

-- Finlay
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