Subject: Re: recent change in script exec'ing?
To: Jon Buller <jonb@metronet.com>
From: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/10/1995 11:43:09
> (This may not be current any more, please humor a post that's
> only a day or two late... 8-)
>
> Was there a recent change in the way scripts are exec'd (in the
> last 2 months)? The reason I ask is that I was using a script
> to connect with my Internet provider, and it has clear-text
> passwords in it. To compensate for this, I made the script
> mode 711 owned by root. Everything worked fine, but I just
> compiled a 1.1 kernel and now I get the message:
setuid requires modes 4711