Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As said, I discussed this with Gaetano on IRC, and am not sure why things are 
> set up the way they are.    If a user has permission on a view, shouldn't 
> that include permission on any functions executed by the view?    If not, why 
> not?

Then all someone would have to do to bypass security on a function would be to
define a function of their own calling it?

If I execute shell script that calls a setuid root-only binary that doesn't
give me permission to execute the root-only binary...

-- 
greg


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