At 10:40 AM 2/22/2002 -0600, you wrote: >as root it worked fine, but as his regular user, it would say "shutdown: >must be root" and halt would say "must be superuser" So my question is >what am I missing. I thought if you set the uid bit it would run as the >owner. But in this case, it's not. I also tried 2755 and 6755 for chmod >for just set groupid and set both group and user id.
Like Scott said, you can't set suid shell scripts. I believe you can set suid on perl scripts though, but I could be wrong. I haven't really tried. Anyway, just setup a script that will do this via sudo. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Contractor http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
