pmpatrick Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 jboy, you are right. Shell scripts will not run suid in linux. Apparently, this has been the case for many years. Sorry for the confusion. Here's a nice article discussing the security dangers of suid scripts: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1149/sam0106a/0106a.htm The main options in linux that replace suid shell scripts are sudo, creating a wrapper program in C to execute the script or create a perl script which can run suid. Sudo seems like the easiest approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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