Brian Candler wrote:

> sudo works fine in Ubuntu. Even if you run from the live CD, you can do 
> "sudo bash" to get a root shell.
> 

That's what I'm saying. You need to escalate the current user's privs 
using sudo. You can't have root privs without escalation (ie. log in as 
root) in Ubuntu or OS X since the root account is disabled as it uses 
the sudo paradigm.

However, unlike Robert, what you're saying is that it's specifically 
setuid that's problematic, not the privilege escalation itself, and it's 
the setuid issues that are the reason to have safe level set to 1 rather 
than the privilege escalation. That makes sense.

Regardless, there isn't then a good workaround for what I need? :/
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