On Fri, Aug 29, 1997 at 01:01:28PM +0000, That Funky Chick wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Really? :)
I know how to do that--my question is whether this is safe to do. Being
relatively inexperienced with Linux/Unix, I'm concerned that giving global
access to ksh might be a security problem (you would think a tiny mail
server like mine wouldn't be noticed, but I've actually had an attempt at
mail relaying here...)
/bin/ksh *has* to be executable. It is a shell and it needs to executable
for it to be of any use. Security concerns arise depending on *who* runs
it. Here is my ls -l /bin/ksh on Solaris 2.5
-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 180816 May 2 1996 /bin/ksh
i.e. it has to be 'x' for user/group/world.
If you see a 's' instead of a 'x' in the above perms, you are in for some
fun, though!
All help much appreciated as usual. I feel like I should make brownies for
this group, or buy you a case of beer...
Sounds good!
Vikas