Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Sify broadband connection on Linux RHES 4

On Friday 15 December 2006 13:36, Vihan Pandey wrote:

there was(at that time at least) a binary which could successfully run on a GNU/Linux system. i have tried it out and it worked. The only tragic part was that you HAD to run it as root AARG !!! A pity the authors never bothered studying SUID, SGID and the concept of running a service as a user with a /bin/false shell. They even created a very badly written init script ;-)

Yeah, duh. I edited the init script the Gentoo way ;) Actually, maybe the Debian way too, since I used start-stop-daemon

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[B.E. in EXTC]

i give you even more sympathy ;-) Sorry, i say that to ANYONE who makes it a point to mention they are a B.E ;-)

I make it a point to mention that I'm SSC from a Marathi medium school.