Shell scripts won't run SUID even if the SUID bit is set.
Perl scripts need some work before they can run SUID.
Compiled programs will run SUID with no problems.
-- Raju
>>>>> "ishwar" == ishwardeep singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ishwar> Hi Rajesh , If the only requirement was to run a
ishwar> script as root , you can try the same by setting the User
ishwar> Id bit for the Script and change the owner of the script
ishwar> to root .
ishwar> chown root <scriptname> chmod 4744 <scriptname> ( to
ishwar> set the user id bit of the script)
ishwar> When you run the script it would set the effective
ishwar> user id to that of root user so you have all the
ishwar> permissions of root .
ishwar> regds , ID
ishwar> ______________________________ Reply Separator
ishwar> _________________________________ Subject: Re: [LIH]
ishwar> superuser equivalent user Author: Mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ishwar> at internet Date: 1/16/01 2:19 PM
ishwar> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:49:03AM +0530, Suresh
ishwar> Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
>>
>>> I am curious to know how such account can be created using
>>> command line tool (adduser ) without using userconf :-)
>> give the user gid 0
ishwar> Thanks everybody for help. Problem solved after changing
ishwar> uid=0 and gid=0 in /etc/passwd file.
ishwar> What I wanted to do here was to create a user for taking
ishwar> backups and put the scr ipt for taking backup in that
ishwar> user's profile and after the backup is over exit. This
ishwar> user needed to have root permissions.
ishwar> -- Rajesh Fowkar (Computer Programmer) V. S. DEMPO &
ishwar> CO. LTD. PANAJI-GOA
ishwar> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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