Bug 217687 – busybox does not install with u+s bit set.

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joakim Tjernlund 2008-04-14 17:34:50 UTC]

ls -l /bin/busybox shows
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 869632 2008-01-21 18:37 /bin/busybox

I expected the the u+s bit should be there:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 869632 2008-01-21 18:37 /bin/busybox

[Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 18:47:22 UTC]

Dear Joakim, please clarify why you expect it to be setuid root and reopen this bug.

[Comment 2 Joakim Tjernlund 2008-04-14 19:23:08 UTC]

If a non root user wants to use busybox ping it needs
to be setuid root as ping opens a raw socket. I am sure there
are other cases too.

[Comment 3 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 19:27:22 UTC]

What would happen if a non-root user wanted to use busybox' rm as well? 

Anyway, passing to the embedded team.

[Comment 4 Joakim Tjernlund 2008-04-14 19:34:32 UTC]

busybox drops privs for those commands that doesn't need it.

[Comment 5 solar (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 20:13:13 UTC]

Sorry Jocke but we wont be setting any setXid bits for busybox. If you need that 
functionality of bb please select the proper options in the .config and 
set the u+s bit locally.

[Comment 6 Joakim Tjernlund 2008-04-14 21:09:01 UTC]

OK good to know. I will fix it locally on our board.