a re-exec,
so if you did a second "telinit u" after running the script below
then /etc/init would be re-exec'ed. I don't know if this NOT/IS
inconsistency is a feature or a defect.
Thanks for helping me with this problem.
I hope our conversation can be easily found by any
On 1/12/06, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dana How wrote:
> > Let me know what you think of it.
> Your unionfs scenario leads me to ask this: why not just bind mount a
> different program on top of /sbin/init and do "telinit u"?
That is, to switch from
On 1/12/06, Dana How <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have an idea. Instead of allowing an arbitrary program path to be set,
> > we allow
> > a _suffix_ to be set. "telinit -e INIT_SFX=foo ; telinit u&quo
On 1/12/06, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an idea. Instead of allowing an arbitrary program path to be set, we
> allow
> a _suffix_ to be set. "telinit -e INIT_SFX=foo ; telinit u" would cause init
> to exec
> "/sbin/init.foo". Now, /sbin/init.foo can be a symlink to an execu
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.5
Compare these two reports:
% ldd $(which bash)
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f85000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f81000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e49000)
/l
On 1/3/06, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > This sounds like a security issue. If the admin made / read-only, and
> > someone is able to gain enough privileges to talk to init but not to
> > remount the file system, they could re-exec init with a binary they
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-6
The "telinit u" feature can be used to re-exec /sbin/init,
useful if you've just rewritten (re-installed) /sbin/init.
However, if /sbin/init is on a read-only filesystem,
or you want to redirect init to be running from a different
filesystem because you need
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.86.ds1-6
Around Feb 1998, the "telinit u" feature was added to the sysvinit package.
This allowed a running /sbin/init to be updated (re-executed after
re-installing).
There are other situations where it would be useful to re-exec /sbin/init .
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