how to setuid for shell scripts on ultrix? (really: SETUID STRIPTS ARE A SECURITY HOLE)

Magnus Olsson magnus%thep.lu.se at Urd.lth.se
Fri Nov 16 23:15:18 AEST 1990


In article <6644 at ethz.UUCP> prl at iis.UUCP (Peter Lamb) writes:
>	SETUID SHELL SCRIPTS ARE INHERENTLY A SECURITY HOLE!
>
>		You *CAN'T* make them hackerproof.

Why? 

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