From: John Stile <john@stilen.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] how does buildroot avoid requireing root?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:47:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372466836.28302.157.camel@localhost> (raw)
I am confused about how buildroot creates busybox.
There are notes that one must ensure that busybox setuid root.
Performing this operation must be performed as root:
chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox
Yet when I use buildroot I never become root.
How does buildroot accomplish this?
In output/build/busybox-1.18.5 I see applets/install.sh calls:
install -m 755 busybox $prefix/bin/busybox || exit 1
but I don't see how this becomes setuid?
On my embedded system, I see:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 605876 Jun 28 2013 /bin/busybox*
next reply other threads:[~2013-06-29 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-29 0:47 John Stile [this message]
2013-06-29 1:49 ` [Buildroot] how does buildroot avoid requireing root? Charles Krinke
2013-06-29 8:49 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-06-29 17:08 ` John Stile
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