Joost Witteveen wrote: > > Note that this behaviour is new in bash-2.0 (1.4 didn't do it). > I find it annoying, though. I don't really see the great advantage > of this (its _very_ easy to get around for hackers), and it makes it > more difficult for me to become UID 7483 (no such user exists on my > system, but say it does on a friendly nfs server). > I used to be able to just do > cp /bin/bash /tmp; chown 7483 /tmp/bash; chmod u+s /tmp/bash;/tmp/bash > but now I have to use a different shell (and then type bash, cause I cannot > use the other shell). Does anyone know of an easier way to become > UID=7483?
It might be a nice idea to create an option for su, so that you could type su --uid 7483 this option does not currently exist however. You could look into the setuid command from the super package. With that command you can say setuid 7483 <command> You can use this command in shell script `uidshell' like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash while true; do echo -n "[uid = $1] "`pwd`" $ " read a b=`echo $a | cut -d' ' -f1` if [ "$b" = "cd" ] || [ "$b" = "exit" ]; then $a else setuid $1 $a fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you run this script as super user typing `uidshell 7483', you more or less get what you want. The script could be much fancier of course, but I think it beats the `copying bash' procedure for quick and dirty operations. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
