[BusyBox] RFC: tinylogin integration

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Mon May 20 10:57:03 UTC 2002


Robert,
 
> Attached is only the basic patch for busybox.h/applets.c - I have omitted the
> diff for applets.h, because it would be *very* big (every APPLET() gets a
> additional parameter _BB_SUID_NEVER) and the login files themselves, because
> they are not 100% finished yet
 
Oh.. 1.5 year old dispute.
1) Your idea does not allow to realize an opportunity of installation suid on
programs 
such as "halt" or "reboot".
2) For set suid to "mount" require recompile(!) busibox. 
3) Also it is not necessary to forget about an opportunity suid not for uid=0. 
I like idea from here:
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2001-January/007165.html



--w
vodz



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