Re: [RFC][PATCH] scripts with stdin replaced

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 08:44:23 -0400

Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:

[...]

> Probably the only safe well-known interpreter is perl, and that runs
> setuid scripts itself already.

That is a kludge, and it won't work at all when capabilities are done right
in the filesystem.

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