Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
suid shell-scripts are not allowed, for security reasons. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
