Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:43:43 -0400 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts? Message-ID: <58DB9F20CBF1C01E9468FCEA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org> References: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org>
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--As of May 10, 2011 5:54:04 PM -0700, Chris Telting is alleged to have said: > I've googled for over an hour. > > I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs > that are currently fixed. Suid in and of itself is a security issue. > But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a kludge > and I don't want to use sudo. I'm hoping it's a setting that is just > disabled by default. --As for the rest, it is mine. It should just work, in most cases. (I think there are a couple of base programs that _require_ being suid to work. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to log in to a box...) One thought: What's the output of 'mount' for the slice you are trying to run this script from? (Suid can be blocked on a per-mountpoint basis.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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