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Re: Changing Oracle gid and uid?

From: Denny Koovakattu <oracle-l_at_koovakattu.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:04:18 -0500
Message-ID: <1129050258.434bf09219d95@webmail.koovakattu.com>

  But in practice, chown removes the setuid bit. If not, you could break into systems that way. Make a copy of ksh or sh, set the setuid bit and then change ownership to any other user and then execute the new shell with setuid ;)

Regards,
Denny

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Denny Koovakattu


Quoting Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>:


> David Sharples wrote:
> > you would also have to reset the setuid permission on the oracle
> > executable as it would be lost with a chown
>
> Not so. chmod changes file permissions, not chown.
>
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