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In article <gburnoreCr7Czw.Jnz@netcom.com> gburnore@netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) writes:

| 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.

Well, actually ksh allows setuid shripts if you (1) compile with the
SUID_EXEC option on and (2) install the suid_exec binary in /etc. I see
no indication that SCO has done this, so the effective answer is "you
can, but someone didn't include the capability."

If you have the source you can compile and have a working ksh, but it
will lack the SCO value added of directory guessing when you do a 'cd'
and don't get it quite right. One of the few things value added which
actually add value IMHO, and I have not recompiled ksh under SCO to add
setuid scripts.
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