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Re: Permission problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Thu Nov 7 13:01:39 1996
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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 07 Nov 1996 08:18:55 +0100
In-Reply-To: Elliot Lee's message of Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:51:52 -0500 (EST)
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Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> writes:
> > scripts do not have to be suid root.
>
> More like, scripts *cannot* be suid root.
>
> There is an inherent security risk in having suid-root scripts. So Linux
> (and many other UNIXish OS's) just ignores the suid flag if it is on a
> script.
Aside: You can use suidPerl for this.
Or, you can write a C wrapper.
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