Permissions on the password database may be too restrictive

Valdir Leite valdirh at gmail.com
Tue May 2 23:20:10 UTC 2006


Bent,

2¢:
Don't forget the issues related to "race conditions" when suid'ing apps.

Valdir

On 5/2/06, Bent Bagger <bbagger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 02/05/06, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Give your application the necessary rights to read (and, if it
> > should change the password) and write to that file.
> >
>
> I made my application run suid as root and now it works. Thanks for your help.
>
> Bent
>
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