file interrogation

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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It sounds to me like the following is happening, though I'd have to see the fs to be sure:

1. the binary is run setuid root
2. The binary uses setgid (2) system call to change to the dip group.

In that case, ls -l should show something like this:

rwsrxrx


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Joseph C. Lininger
Oh alright, here's the *actual* signature...

And so it came to pass that on Sun, 28 May 2006, Jude DaShiell said

> For debian users at least, as root why not try a small experiment.  do
> adduser user_name dip then do poff dsl-provider if you use a dsl-provider
> file as root.  Then exit back to user_name account, then try pon
> dsl-provider and notice what happens.  Once done as root do deluser
> user_name dip and also do adduser user_name root then exit back to
> user_name account and try that pon dsl-provider command again and notice
> the result.  On this computer, it worked with dip but not root so ls maybe
> could do with some improvement.
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