Bugtraq: Re: irix-soundplayer.sh

From: Darren Reed <avalon_at_COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:58:55 +1100

In some mail from pda_at_ING.PUC.CL, sie said:
>
> > midikeys might not setuid these days but you get the idea...
>
> Worked fine on Irix 6.4 here... although i had to change csh to sh for some
> reason... csh returned permission denied, 4755 and all. I assume the fix is to
> take out the suid bit?

Your problem here is that various csh's won't run setuid-root scripts unless
you specify (I think) the -b flag. From the Solaris csh man page:

...
     -b Force a "break" from option processing. Subsequent
               command line arguments are not interpreted as C
               shell options. This allows the passing of options
               to a script without confusion. The shell does not
               run set-user-ID or set-group-ID scripts unless
               this option is present.
...

then again, maybe it was done deliberately to foil script kiddies ;)

Darren
Received on Jan 04 2000