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Comment by microtonal

10 years ago

3) Dropbox installs some helper programs with the SUID bit set.

And this is what they actually do.

    % ls -l /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501
    total 256
    -r-s--x--x  1 root  wheel    9632 Sep  8 20:10 dbaccessperm
    -r-s--x--x  1 root  wheel  116668 Sep  8 20:10 dbfseventsd

(Note the SUID bit and the root owner, meaning that these binaries will run with the root UID when started by a normal user.)

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