On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:06:55AM +0530, Madhurjya P. Bora wrote:
>
> Hi All!
>
> How to make a program SUID-root so that, when I try to execute the
> program, it automatically prompt for root password,
You have the wrong idea about setuid programs.
>From chmod(1) on a FreeBSD box:
4000 (the set-user-ID-on-execution bit) Executable files with
this bit set will run with effective uid set to the uid of
the file owner. Directories with the set-user-id bit set
will force all files and sub-directories created in them to
be owned by the directory owner and not by the uid of the
creating process, if the underlying file system supports
this feature: see chmod(2) and the suiddir option to
mount(8).
What you can do however is:
su root -c <your command>
-Arun
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