From: khollan <khollan@daktronics.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:39:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12039968.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B3A44E.1030508@freescale.com>
Scott Wood-2 wrote:
>
>
> Make sure it's owned by root, and chmod 4755 the binary. I'm not sure
> how to go about telling busybox to drop suid when invoked as something
> else. It'd probably be better to build two busyboxes, one with all suid
> commands and the other with the rest.
>
> -Scott
>
>
I chmod 4755 to the passwd binary and it worked. Before I did that I also
added a Busybox.conf file in /etc with this in it...
[SUID]
passwd = ssx root.root
I don't know if I needed that or not but it works now. Thanks
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 20:49 BusyBox passwd requires root privileges khollan
2007-08-03 20:53 ` Scott Wood
2007-08-03 21:39 ` khollan
2007-08-03 21:55 ` Scott Wood
2007-08-07 18:39 ` khollan [this message]
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