[BusyBox-cvs] svn commit: trunk/busybox/sysdeps/linux

[landley at busybox.net]

Author: landley
Date: 2005-04-29 13:48:29 -0600 (Fri, 29 Apr 2005)
New Revision: 10201

Log:
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 05:23 am, Patrick Huesmann wrote:
> This is really confusing for users who don't know all details of the
> *nix file permission system.
> Today, I changed my busybox system to use CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG.
> After fighting with the file permissions for hours, I decided that
> updating the documentation might be a good idea.



Modified:
   trunk/busybox/sysdeps/linux/Config.in


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/busybox/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
===================================================================
--- trunk/busybox/sysdeps/linux/Config.in	2005-04-28 20:29:58 UTC (rev 10200)
+++ trunk/busybox/sysdeps/linux/Config.in	2005-04-29 19:48:29 UTC (rev 10201)
@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@
 
 	  cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
 
+	  The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
+	  writeable only by root:
+	  	(chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
+	  The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
+	  root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
+	  	(chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
+
 	  Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
 	  <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.