On 10/30/12 1:53 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 10/30/2012 06:28 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> $ ./system-suid >>> [8204] ruid = 1000, euid = 0, suid = 0 >> >> Looks like your /bin/sh is broken. >> > How "broken" exactly? Honest question.
It's not unheard of for vendors to make their own changes and ship the result. This has happened a number of times in the past. > > Anyway, my /bin/sh is bash ... > > $ ls -l /bin/sh > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 8 2010 /bin/sh -> bash > > $ /bin/sh --version > GNU bash, version 4.2.20(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > > This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > I'm on Debian Unstable BTW (sorry for not specifying that earlier). You should open a bug report with Debian. This behavior has been noted previously; look at one of the footnotes to answer 2 in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/556194/calling-a-script-from-a-setuid-root-c-program-script-does-not-run-as-root for example. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
