On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 08:37, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Is it just me, or did someone actually implement
set-uid scripts?
Yes, they were a thing for a while, until someone realised that you could
do:
ln -s /bin/scriptname ./-i
"-i" # assuming that "." is already in your path
...and get a root shell. Source: I did this on (ISTR) 4.1 or 4.2BSD.
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