Re: SUID server

[J C Lawrence <claw () KANGA NU>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:35:17 +0200
Philipp Buehler <lists () FIPS DE> wrote:

> On 01/10/2000, Adam Langley <agl () LINUXPOWER ORG> wrote To
> VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM:

> > the traceroute.so file and continues. The data from the frontend
> > is checked and parsed and passed the the traceroute backend which
> > (running as root)

> So, you write a check/parser for *any* suid binary behind it?

I would look at it as directly similar to the way PAM and PAM
modules are currently implemented.

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