jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) (04/03/91)
hello everybody- using minix causes a lot of troubles, doesn't it? why is it not possible to start a file like this: -rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? In System V Relaise 3.2 it is allowed... Joerg Conradt UUCP: jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Germany)
ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (04/05/91)
In <10640@unlisys.in-berlin.de> jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) writes: >why is it not possible to start a file like this: >-rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? MM wants to read the executable using the permissions of the user doing the exec. Any user except bin would be unable to execute this file. >In System V Relaise 3.2 it is allowed... You should have the source. Fix it. -- Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services helmer@sdnet.bitnet, dsuvax!ghelmer@wunoc.wustl.edu, wupost!dsuvax!ghelmer "I'm a cowboy, on a keyboard I ride..." -- with apologies to Bon Jovi
waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) (04/06/91)
jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) wrote: > hello everybody- > using minix causes a lot of troubles, doesn't it? > why is it not possible to start a file like this: > -rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? > > In System V Relaise 3.2 it is allowed... ... and so it should be. This is one of the famous system bugs of the MINIX operating system, for which at least three people announ- ced decent fixes. The accompanying bug is, that group execute permission does not work. So, if you have: -rwsr-s--- uucp uucp /usr/lib/uucp/uucico and if your ID is "some_uucp.uucp", then you cannot execute the program either.... Hurray! I fixed both of these; it required three lines of code in MM and five lines in FS. That's all.. If people want to, I can post it, although other fixes were also posted. Fred.
mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell) (04/06/91)
In article <1991Apr4.161759.4354@dsuvax.uucp> ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes: >In <10640@unlisys.in-berlin.de> jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) writes: >>why is it not possible to start a file like this: >>-rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? > >MM wants to read the executable using the permissions of the user >doing the exec. Any user except bin would be unable to execute this >file. > >>In System V Relaise 3.2 it is allowed... > >You should have the source. Fix it. >-- >Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services >helmer@sdnet.bitnet, dsuvax!ghelmer@wunoc.wustl.edu, wupost!dsuvax!ghelmer >"I'm a cowboy, on a keyboard I ride..." > -- with apologies to Bon Jovi I'm sure I've seen at least one set of fixes for this go by on the net. I never installed them as I can live with the problem and expect that the next upgrade (using PH 1.5, AKA 1.5.10 as a baseline) will fix it. I've seen banter about 1.6.x on the net. Anybody know if a fix for this is already in place at that revision level? Any chance of a thumbnail sketch of planning for the next net upgrade? When? What revision level? What changes from 1.5.10? No commitments, just a hint about what the current thinking is. -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)
peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (Peter J. de Vrijer) (04/07/91)
In article <91040521171@minixug.mugnet.org>, waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) wrote: > jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) wrote: >> hello everybody- >> using minix causes a lot of troubles, doesn't it? >> why is it not possible to start a file like this: >> -rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? [some lines deleted] > I fixed both of these; it required three lines of code in MM and five > lines in FS. That's all.. > > If people want to, I can post it, although other fixes were also > posted. Please do! I don't have the fixes. Regards from Peter Peter J. de Vrijer | UUCP: peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org Tel: +31 38 660735 | packet radio: peter@pa3ebv.ampr.org Ministerlaan 9 | 8014 PL Zwolle | "And yet I'm happy, The Netherlands | I can't figure it out." Snoopy
waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) (04/16/91)
peter@pa3ebv.nl.mugnet.org (Peter J. de Vrijer) wrote: > In article <91040521171@minixug.mugnet.org>, waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen) wrote: >> jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) wrote: >>> hello everybody- >>> using minix causes a lot of troubles, doesn't it? >>> why is it not possible to start a file like this: >>> -rwx---x--x bin bin blablabla ???? > > [some lines deleted] > >> I fixed both of these; it required three lines of code in MM and five >> lines in FS. That's all.. >> >> If people want to, I can post it, although other fixes were also >> posted. > Please do! I don't have the fixes. Yes you do.... you just got the new kernel :-) Fred. -- MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Development waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org Tel (+31) 252 230 205, Hoefbladhof 27, 2215 DV VOORHOUT, The Netherlands "An Operating System is what the _USERS_ think of it- me"