Bash scripting question

[Matthew Carpenter]

If SUID was possible on bash scripts themselves I would hope any admin that
could MAKE it SUID wouldn't allow just anyone to dork with it.  That being
said, in reality it would seem that, since /bin/bash is the actual program
running the script, /bin/bash would be the program that would have to be SUID.
 That hilites David's concerns.

On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:56:47 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

> Yes.  Consider: a script will run _anything_ you put in it.  Now think
> of the worst stuff you could put in it.  Want your users running that
> SUID?  And even seemingly benign stuff, if it has a command that?s not
> fully pathed (oops), and as a user I create a similarly named malicious
> tool (and of course my PATH has $HOME/bin before the system paths) --
> sounds like a wtfo (what the frell over?) to me.