Busybox for Mini2440

[walter harms]

Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> On Tuesday 24 November 2009 01:54:25 Tito wrote:
>> 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.
>> 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?
> 
> one might say jim is keeping it simple.  it's a lot easier to audit a smaller 
> redirector binary than it is to audit the busybox code base.
> -mike
> 

we have /etc/busybox (or something like that) for applets that need suid, havent we ?

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