Re: Helper Tool on FireWire

FROM : Finlay Dobbie
DATE : Sun Jun 25 13:25:20 2006

On 25/06/06, Gerriet M. Denkmann <<email_removed>> wrote:
> > Why does your tool need to run from the boot partition?
>
> It does not. But it needs to run setuid root, and this seems not to
> work on FireWire-non-boot-partitions.


Of course. Otherwise, I could take a FireWire drive, hook it up to my
Mac, put a tool on it, make it setuid root, then connect my drive to
your Mac and boom! Instance root access.

-- Finlay