On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:02:28PM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I want to adopt osh (#89433), but I am not a Debian developer, > so I can't change the title of the wnpp bug until I find a sponsor. > If you are interested, please sponsor me. > > My .deb of osh is available at: > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/debian-unofficial/osh_1.7.orig.tar.gz > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/debian-unofficial/osh_1.7-9.diff.gz > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/debian-unofficial/osh_1.7-9.dsc > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/debian-unofficial/osh_1.7-9_i386.deb > > Note that osh is a setuid root shell and it does *NOT* drop root privilege > when it executes a command. Be extremely careful when you configure or > use it. (osh is installed in /usr/sbin/osh and its permission is 4754. > It is not for a normal user.)
IMHO this kind of programs should be avoided in any sane distribution. We have already periodic problems with a program like sudo which has potentially many levels of control over its use/abuse. No sysadmin with a grain of salt in his mind could install this kind of monsters... Please, find any other sane orphaned pkg and you will have your sponsor in me. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
