Re: Setting set-uid on a script

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From: Gary L. Burnore
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 22:26

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Ring Medical (rmedical@world.std.com) wrote:
: Kind People,

: 	We are running SCO v3.2.4.2 and are trying to make a root
: owned script have a setuid attribute. We have done a chmod u+s
: to it has well as having it owned by root. All to no avail. I am sure
: this is in the FAQ but we couldn't find the FAQ. Could anybody give
: us a lead ?

I may be wrong but I think you can't do an suid on a shell script and 
have it work.  v3.2.4.2 DOES have a command called asroot which as the 
name implies, runs something "as root".  Do man asroot to see how it 
works.  Basically root sets up what can/cant be done.
-- 

gburnore@netcom.com
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From: gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore)
Subject: Re: Setting set-uid on a script
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