RE: [cobalt-users] How can I add a user from a public form

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Clive Harper wrote:

> Thanks Shimi,
> 
> chown +s ? what does this do I cannot find any help on this in the man or
> info for chown
> 
> It also errors when I try and use it?
> 
> Any ideas?

no, chown root, and chmod +s, but if you don't know what SUID files/apps
are and permissions, well, as I said, that is very dangerous...

unless you're on a no-script-kiddies enviroment (off the internet) - and
you're a really good programmer, I wouldn't advise to do that (although
there's really no other way to do so off httpd, as you must SOMEHOW get
root priviliges to do what you want to do, and the only way to do that is
SUID applications, as far as I know. (even the utility with which you're
changing passwords on unix, passwd, is SUID root, but I'll remind you that
most of the ways to highen your priviliges were through suid
applications...)

HTH,

- shimi.