Ubuntu

user has permissions to /sbin

Bug #6111 reported by faked
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Bug Description

I just discovered in dapper that every user has permissions to /sbin without sudo.
I just wrote a new partition table as user without sudo:
cfdisk /dev/hda

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Cannot reproduce this report on either Flight 1, Flight 2, or current Dapper. Please give output from ``ls -l /sbin/cfdisk'' and strace (as a normal user).

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

It is possible to runs programs in '/sbin/', ...I use the following on a frequent basis:

  /usr/sbin/iwconfig
  /sbin/lsmod
  /sbin/ifconfig

but none of these commands will doing that makes changes without priviliges (eg. running under sudo).

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