To suid a program called thisapp, you do the following (as root):
chmod +s thisapp
Be careful with this, though -- suid is *always* a potential security hole,
so use it judiciously.
At 10:18 PM 2/16/99 -0500, Akintayo Holder wrote:
>On numerous occasions I have seen references, telling me to set suid on
>some executable to root. I believe this would let the executable work as
>if it was started by root regardless of the user.
>
>Now how do I set an executable to suid or whatever - there is no suid
>command is there?
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