On 12/1/05, S. Anthony Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:52 +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: > > That is: I've got a setuid-root bash script. It prints out the > > effective > > and real uid. > > But when I run it, I won't have root privileges... Why?!? > > A security feature. Check out Google. >
Thanks. I found a good explanation [1]. Now I understand the issue. I was trying to make a wrapper exactly because of my misunderstanding of setuid shell scripts. It'd be long to explain... anyway now I agree with you to follow the original solution. Luca [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2004/05/msg00279.html -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
