Busybox for Mini2440
Tito
farmatito at tiscali.it
Tue Nov 24 06:54:25 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 01:06:06 you wrote:
> >Did you "suid" busybox?
>
> We don't do that, I was uncomfortable with giving
> all BB applets such privilege. We wrote a simple
> suid-root exec-er that was linked to the few apps
> that needed such privilege, it in turn just execs
> "busybox $*" (in effect) to get it done.
>
> -- Jim
>
Hi,
This is unneeded as busybox drops itself the super user privileges
at start for the applets that don't need it. Keep it simple.
Why should your suid-root exec-er be safer than busybox?
Ciao,
Tito
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