More PATH fallout. Who decided this was a good idea?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 8 16:24:10 UTC 2008


Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said: 
> Then later, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> said:
> > > So "cat >> /etc/shadow" is audited?
> >
> > Of course.
> 
> So cat will have to be setuid root so it can audit?  What about echo,
> bash, perl, etc.?
> 
> This is absurd.

As stated earlier, that's done by auditing of the access to the
file itself.

Bill




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