[TUHS] Set-uid shell scripts

[Norman Wilson]

Oops.  Didn't think it through: the problem is argv[1],
passed as the name of the script being executed, not
argv[0].  Disregard my previous execl(...).

A related problem is the inherent race condition:
If you do
	ln -s /bin/setuidscript .
	./setuidscript
./setuidscript is opened twice: once when the kernel
reads it and finds #! as magic number and execs the
interpreter, a second time when the interpreter opens
./setuidscript.  If you meanwhile run something that
swoops in in the background and replaces ./setuidscript
with malicious instructions for the interpreter, you
win.

I remember managing to do this myself at one point in
the latter part of the 1980s.  That was when I fell
out of love with setuid interpreter scripts.

It looks like we didn't disable the danger in the
Research kernel, though.  I don't remember why not.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON