From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 19:25:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7BE106566C for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 19:25:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from mail.mroute.net (lax-gw08.mailroute.net [199.89.0.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281E18FC16 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 19:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw08.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D29299E94; Sat, 14 May 2011 19:09:07 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw08.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D99299E86; Sat, 14 May 2011 19:09:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A8E62456C; Sat, 14 May 2011 12:09:05 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Pan Tsu References: <4DC9DE2C.6070605@telting.org> <201105121657.57647.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4DCBFC39.8060900@telting.org> <201105130932.32144.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4DCD02EF.7050808@telting.org> <86k4duh4q9.fsf@gmail.com> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.6.13; tzolkin = 2 Ben; haab = 1 Zip Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 12:09:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: <86k4duh4q9.fsf@gmail.com> (Pan Tsu's message of "Fri, 13 May 2011 21:47:58 +0400") Message-ID: <868vu9qeum.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Telting , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, krad Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 19:25:01 -0000 >>>>> "Pan" == Pan Tsu writes: Pan> ...a shebang can be written with sudo in mind, e.g. Pan> #! /usr/bin/env -S sudo sh Pan> id (Untested) why not just "#!/usr/local/bin/sudo" ? It'll be given the filename as an argument. Aside: In general, almost every use of "#!/usr/bin/env XXX" as a solution is wrong. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion