The problem with that approach is that it opens up the applications in question to *any parameters* unlike the setuid C program which hardcodes the parameters to the commands.
There is still a risk the binary may be modified, but it is lower than the risk an attacker might be able to execute arbitrary "mdadm" and "mount/umount" commands using sudo. -- Michael Schwarz > This isn't really an answer to your question, but isn't this an ideal > application for sudo? Make a shell script with the mdadm command(s) you > want. And set it up so apache or whatever your web server runs as able > to run your shell script as root without authentication. > > Ian > -- > Ian Dall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
