On Tue May 16, 2006 at 13:46:30 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > >Malcolm V wrote: ><snipped> >>Read "man 3 system" as I suggested yesterday. > >Thanks Malcolm. > >>See "man 3 exec" for what you want. > >Changed > system(argv[1]); >to > execlp(argv[1],argv[2]); > >in the source and now when it runs we see a different result > >$ ./suidexec id >Executing Command 'id' >uid=501(prundle) gid=501(prundle) euid=502(matlab) groups=502(matlab) >context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t > >But it doesn't trick the Matlab licence manager. > >$./suidexec /home/matlab/product/bin/matlab >Executing Command '/home/matlab/product/bin/matlab' > >License Manager Error -39. >User/host not on INCLUDE list for feature. > >How hum. Something about a square, a number and a sore head. > >But now I also suspect that the Apache suexec module won't work either, so >don't think I'll go down that path, perhaps ssh will be more successful.
So, as long as you are hacking a license manager, I could suggest strace/ltrace the license manager to see how it is working stuff out and then possibly an evil LD_PRELOAD to trick it... of course this is quite evil. This is something you shouldn't look at: http://whydontyoublogaboutit.com/item/348 Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
