[olug] chmod u+s

[Thom Harrison]

Can root run mail.log.cat successfully?
Is /var mounted with the SUID allowed?

If you answered "yes" to both questions then the answer is:

It's not worth a squat!

:-)

Thom

Jay Hannah wrote:

>
> Huh? What good is the setUID bit if it doesn't let me do this?
>
> Setup:
> root at chinstrap log # ls -al mail.log.cat
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Jun 3 17:03 mail.log.cat
> root at chinstrap log # cat mail.log.cat
> cat /var/log/mail.log
>
> Try to use it:
> jhannah at chinstrap log $ ./mail.log.cat
> cat: /var/log/mail.log: Permission denied
>
> Gentoo, Linux 2.6.6
>
> j
>
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