[MPlayer-users] can anyone play the Oblivion trailer?

RC rcooley at spamcop.net
Fri Jul 1 06:09:36 CEST 2005


On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:55:21 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

> suid root mplayer is EXACTLY THE SAME as
> suid-root shell: it means everyone (including the cracker who breaks
> into some shitty useless running-as-uid-nobody service you happen to
> have enabled) is root.

Unless you set the permissions correctly.  eg:

chgrp suid /usr/local/bin/mplayer
chmod 4550 /usr/local/bin/mplayer




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