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On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 20 November 2006 21:20, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 01:20, Mick wrote: |
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>> Can't run scripts suid on Linux afaik. |
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> Hmm, shows I haven't tried it yet . . . Don't know if there's a way of |
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> bypassing the restriction (I think you can in Unix?). |
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Linux purposefully ignores the setuid bit on shell scripts, so there's |
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no way to get around this restriction. This is for the best. |
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There are-- or were-- other UNIXes that honored the setuid bit on shell |
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scripts by default, but I haven't come across any of them in the last five or so years. |
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If you really needed to run a shell script as root, you could try using |
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djb's "envuidgid" [1] available in Gentoo package |
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sys-process/daemontools . But before you do so, remember that there's a |
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good reason why so many UNIXes have disabled this feature; you might |
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think of a better way to solve your problem. |
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[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envuidgid.html |
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Joe |
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