Executable binaries can be setuid/setgid and they behave as expected.
Eg. pppd etc
-Naren
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Siddharth Patwardhan wrote:
> ---------- On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote ----------
> >
> > No. that is not correct. Just setting the group +s does not make the
> > script run as root.
> >
> > From the Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
> > <snip>
> > Many Unix-like systems, in particular Linux, simply ignore the setuid and
> > setgid bits on scripts to avoid the race condition
> > described earlier.....
> > </snip>
> >
> > For a script to run as root, the file has to be owned by root and must be
> > setuid.
> >
> > And as per above snippet that might not happen for scripts!
>
> ... Does this apply only to scripts or is it even so for executable binaries ?
> Thanks.
>
> -- Siddharth.
>
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