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#133
Originally Posted by wicket View Post
The second thing I discovered was that it is actually possible to run an incepted opensh shell as a regular user and gain full root privileges without needing to supply a root password!

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This is why installing opensh is optional - it makes things wide open, often more so than you want. I've been meaning to build a replacement that has a password prompt, à la sudo. (If someone else is interested in implementing one, that would be greatly appreciated; what INCEPTION needs is apps, apps, and more apps!)

Note that as long as Aegis is exploitable, an evil unprivileged app could still obtain full access even without opensh - it would just be more difficult. opensh is essentially poking a hole through a dam that's already leaky.

@rainisto develsh doesn't have a password prompt either, though - so if incepting it does grant it full privileges, doing so is exactly as much of an issue as installing opensh, I'd imagine.