On Wednesday 27 April 2005 05:23 am, Patrick Huesmann wrote:

> This is really confusing for users who don't know all details of the
> *nix file permission system.
> Today, I changed my busybox system to use CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG.
> After fighting with the file permissions for hours, I decided that
> updating the documentation might be a good idea.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/linux/Config.in b/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
index e926b5973..2a00a17a2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
+++ b/sysdeps/linux/Config.in
@@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_SUID_CONFIG
 
           cp = --- # disable applet cp for everyone
 
+          The file has to be owned by user root, group root and has to be
+          writeable only by root:
+                (chown 0.0 /etc/busybox.conf; chmod 600 /etc/busybox.conf)
+          The busybox executable has to be owned by user root, group
+          root and has to be setuid root for this to work:
+                (chown 0.0 /bin/busybox; chmod 4755 /bin/busybox)
+
           Robert 'sandman' Griebl has more information here:
           <url: http://www.softforge.de/bb/suid.html >.