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I wrote a little application (see below) that activates eth0 so my noobishness doesn't make me reboot. I was just wondering is it safe to sudo root it?
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main () {
system("/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1");
}
suid root?
I don't think that it needs to be run as suid root, because any old user can execute rc.inet1.
but to answer the question:
since you have the absolute path of the program, in order to exploit that program to get root, the user would have to modify or replace rc.inet1.
anyway. check #ifconifg and #service (man) they are system commands that allow you to work with your network or to simply start|stop|restart the 'network' service.
Originally posted by neuroX but to answer the question:
since you have the absolute path of the program, in order to exploit that program to get root, the user would have to modify or replace rc.inet1.
Originally posted by stickman Or anything called in rc.inet1.
your right....
it doesn't use the absolute path to grep, so maybe on some systems you could make a file in the current dir called 'grep' and make it "#!/bin/bash; /bin/sh" or something to that effect.
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