>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 28 17:38:11 2001
>On 28-Nov-01 Joerg Schilling wrote: >>>find / -perm +1000 on your system does produce not even *one* file? > >> 1) you don"t really mean 1000 which is the sticky bit? >I used the plus meaning "this value or higher" i.e. including suid and sgid There is no such meaning of the -perm parameter! See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/find.html You are using a nonstandard "find" :-( >But much more interesting: >How is the cdrecord implementation of the suid privileges? Does it run with >full privileges only for the necessary operations (like scheduling and >/dev/sgX access) and otherwise with the permissions of the user? >I think I can remember some comment in the cdrecord documentation which more >or less states that cdrecord is at least "well behaved" set suid root and >your suggested way of installing it. Please read the man page.... Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
