Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : esc
Date : Wed Sep 21 2022 02:23 pm

 CB> ps -aux will tell you what user it's running as.

The issue is that the 'mis' application drops suid to the user who owns the binary, however there are some strange artifacts of launching as root in the first place. This manifests in python, dosemu, other various spots. It tries to read/write to /root/ instead of /home/bbsuser/, with the permission of the bbs user, which obviously will fail.

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