Quoting David Harel, from the post of Wed, 19 Feb: > >>Since this is a privileged command I had to wrap it with a small program > >>I wrote in C that does just what we said and to it's executable I set > >>the setuid bit. > > > >tried sudo? > > > I do not like sudo. For me the name is bad enough but seriously for this > small problem sudo is a cannon to kill a fly with.
no, this is actually exactly what sudo was created for, a generic, safe wrapper around programs that should run suid with a limited choice of commandline options and other limitations. > You are right about that. This was a temporary solution until I > convinced samba and the w2000 client to use network printer. Just a few > minutes ago I finished arguing with the both (probably, writing those > words will make the printing mechanism blow into my face again). I print via CUPS to CIFS/SMB queues and it works fine, and samba exports CUPS' queues out to windows' clients quite well as well. Never hd to fight it or anything. -- American Ninja Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
