On 07/02/2015 22:50, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: > On 7 February 2015 at 21:24, Sandor Strohmayer > <sstrohma...@linuxcourseware.com > <mailto:sstrohma...@linuxcourseware.com>> wrote: >> >> I agree that suid will not be allowed on a script, but why bring it up > as a special topic. From a teaching perspective (and as you pointed > out) the issue should be pointed out as part of the general suid discussion > > > I still think that there is a problem with the text. > > The text currently says: > "Manage the location, ownership, execution and suid-rights of scripts" > > ***Manage*** the ***suid-rights*** of scripts. > > There is nothing to manage. It doesn't matter if it is on or off. > > I agree that students can be told that you can't change the effective > user of a shell-script with the suid-bit.
Possibly the original intent of the objective is to highlight that suid-bits do nothing on scripts. As opposed to what they do on compiled binaries. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
