I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success.
The command I want to execute as root is "echo -n mem > /sys/power/status". I created a bash script (/usr/local/bin/suspendtoram) like so: #!/bin/bash echo -n mem > /sys/power/status then set owner and group to root:root and made the script suid. However this doesn't work. The error message goes: /usr/local/bin/suspendtoram: line 2: /sys/power/state: Permission denied I am still having to "sudo echo -n mem > /sys/power/status" and then to enter a password. What am I doing wrong? thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
