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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID and login
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2005-10-31 23:05:06
Message-ID: 200510311705.06400.rob () landley ! net
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On Monday 31 October 2005 14:17, John Kelly wrote:
> With busybox 1.00 (and busybox snapshot 20051030), the login applet
> forces CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID, and the help text for login says "note
> that Busybox binary must be setuid root for this applet to work
> properly."
>
> Is this a config/docementation bug?
>
> When busybox is not suid root, I can still log in as a non-root user,
> no matter whether busybox is configured for internal passwd and group
> functions, or system passwd and group functions.

In which case you're already running it _as_ root, so the suid bit is a moot 
point.

Rob
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