7.  Several people have reported that `dip' (a program for SLIP/PPP
    on Linux) does not work with bash-2.0 installed as /bin/sh.

    I don't run any Linux boxes myself, and do not have the dip
    code handy to look at, but the `problem' with bash-2.0, as
    it has been related to me, is that bash requires the `-p'
    option to be supplied at invocation if it is to run setuid
    or setgid. 

    This means, among other things, that setuid or setgid programs
    which call system(3) (a horrendously bad practice in any case)
    relinquish their setuid/setgid status in the child that's forked
    to execute /bin/sh. 

    The following is an *unofficial* patch to bash-2.0 that causes it
    to not require `-p' to run setuid or setgid if invoked as `sh'.
    It has been reported to work on Linux.  It will make your system
    vulnerable to bogus system(3) calls in setuid executables.

--- bash-3.0.orig/shell.c    Wed Dec 18 14:16:30 1996
+++ shell.c     Fri Mar  7 13:12:03 1997
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@
       initialize_shell_builtins ();
     }
 
-  if (running_setuid && privileged_mode == 0)
+  if (running_setuid && privileged_mode == 0 && act_like_sh == 0)
     disable_priv_mode ();
 
   /* Need to get the argument to a -c option processed in the