Thread: [Announce] Enhanced BusyBox package
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ade is offline ade
2012-04-05 , 22:35
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#256
Originally Posted by iDont View Post
Confirmed. Ade's right about the issue causing this.
I'm leaning towards reverting the whole SUID-situation to how things were with busybox-power 1.19.3power1 (that is: no SUID bit and no workaround patch at all). Being able to run ping, su, etc. as a non-privileged user seems to be not worth the effort and the risk of breaking applications like preenv (there may be other applications getting broken that we're not aware of).
I did not look into it to the matter thoroughly, but it only effects starting preenv from the command prompt. As almost all users will use the menu for starting preenv apps, I see the impact as very minor.
Next to this issue I have not seen any other related findings.

I am very satisfied with the current implementation, but would also have no objections if you decide to revert the SUID situation
 

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