[maemo-users] Missing OS2008 cmdline apps

[From: James Knott]

Ari Yrjölä wrote:
> hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:
>
>   
>> That's bizarre.  What security implications are there in ping that would 
>> mean it has to be run only by root?  Forcing people to use root when not 
>> necessary is itself a security problem.
>>     
>
> I guess ping requires root, because it's not a separate binary but
> included in busybox. /bin/ping is just a symlink to /bin/busybox,
> which is not setuid root, for obvious reasons.
>
>   

Others, such as vi and pwd also link to busybox, but can still be run by
user.


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