This is released, and works very well in practice, at least in my experience.<br><br>
As Bernhard said, CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG is the option you
want. You can also setup an /etc/busybox.conf file to specify
certain applets that should have SUID privilages.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Kottaridis</b> <<a href="mailto:chriskot@quietwind.net">chriskot@quietwind.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> We have some infrastructure that drops root automatically for things that<br>> don't need it, if you enable suid support. Happens before the applet itself<br>> actually gets run, I believe. (Applets are tagged based on whether or not
<br>> they need root access in one of the .h files.)<br>><br>> Rob<br><br>Well, this certainly seems like the "rightest" answer. Is this currently<br>part of the busybox 1.0 release or is it something being worked on for a
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