One creates the script, places it in /usr/local/bin (for example), and runs
it via a root CRONTAB entry.
At 12:42 AM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
Dunno about Linux, but every other
There are a couple of scripts I use for my own convenience
that I ran setuid root
I have one of those: my dialer script.
What I did is create a short C wrapper:
#include stdlib.h
int main() {
system(/root/bin/dial);
return 0;
}
Then I made that suid root.
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:28 AM, Jonathan Chen wrote:
Dunno about Linux, but every other modern UNIX out there doesn't allow
setuid scripts.
Thanks for your response. Now my question is - how does one automate
tasks requiring root privileges?
Paul Lathrop wrote to Jonathan Chen:
Thanks for your response. Now my question is - how does one automate
tasks requiring root privileges?
From /usr/ports/security/sudo/pkg-descr:
Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root
privileges to users and log root
