On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:47:29PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Alexander Jolk wrote: > >Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > >>Did you compile from source or use the debian package from sid? > > > > > >I compiled from source and installed tar into a different location. Now > >if only one could specify which tar to use for amrecover, that would be > >most perfect. :-) > > Making that one configurable at run time would be easy, but it > would also mean that the suid-root program that invokes tar can be > tricked into executing anything you like, giving root privileges to > anyone.
Without checking, depending on others :(, I presume amrecover uses runtar too. But needs be run as root anyway, no? Might a special case be possible for amrecover? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
