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Re: SU for group admin
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter Lorand Peres wrote:
> You must write a C program or a set of scripts (less secure) that
> manipulate the /etc/groups file in an atomic way and that runs as (suid)
exactly. a set of atomic scripts may blow up in your face...
seriously, it's very tricky to get this right and safe AFAIK, I wouldn't
even dive into it if I could avoid it.
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