Re: Setting set-uid on a script

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From: Guenter Becker
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 13:01

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In article <gburnoreCr7Czw.Jnz@netcom.com> gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L.  
Burnore) writes:
> 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.
> -- 
You are right, you can't suid a shell script. Someone said, this is for  
security reasons. What you can do, if you have network software installed:
rcmd localhost -l root <command>
This is not very secure, however ...

G. Becker

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Subject: Re: Setting set-uid on a script
Date: 13 Jun 1994 13:01:19 GMT
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