On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 09:39 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > The ability to do what? Give root ownership to a script? It is > > unchanged. Once again: only root can change ownership. > > > > In any case, the owner of the script is only security-relevant in two > > cases: 1) if it allows someone to edit the script who normally couldn't, > > or 2) if the script is setuid. Of course it could also change who can > > *execute* the script, but if it's not setuid they'll be doing it as > > themselves, not as the owner. > > > Does setuid work on scrips? I know it did not in the past, but I > have not checked to see if that has changed. Quite right, it doesn't. I should have spotted that. It doesn't affect the argument though. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
