On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:53:31PM -0400, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote:
QUOTE: In most UNIX kernels there exists what is called a 'race
condition' when executing scripts. Scripts are pieces of code which are
interpreted by, strangely enough, interpreters. Common examples of
I understand now. Thanks very much for all your help.
Rich
On Saturday 18 September 2004 11:31 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:53:31PM -0400, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote:
QUOTE: In most UNIX kernels there exists what is called a 'race
condition' when executing
Um. I feel silly asking this. But I can't work it out.
I want a shell script to run as another user. I always thought this was easy
to do with the setuid bit, but never tried it before. I read man chmod and
found this:
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4000(the setuid bit). Executable files with this bit set will
man sudo is what you need. Install it from the ports collection
Regards
S.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:50:19 +, Richard Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um. I feel silly asking this. But I can't work it out.
I want a shell script to run as another user. I always thought this was easy
to do
Richard Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um. I feel silly asking this. But I can't work it out.
Not silly, common problem for shell script writers.
I want a shell script to run as another user. I always thought this was easy
to do with the setuid bit, but never tried it before. I read man
Rich,
Someone else had responded to your post explaining that setuid does not
work with shell scripts. Nor does it work with any interpreted input.
The following article might help explain this (and others):
http://www.evolt.org/article/UNIX_File_Permissions_and_Setuid_Part_2/
18/263/
