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Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Pan" =3D=3D Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> (Untested) why not just "#!/usr/local/bin/sudo" ? =A0It'll be given the
> filename as an argument.

Precisely. I think this thread should be forked to something like
"suid versus sudo for scripts"?

I second the sudo idea instead of suiding the interpreter, and it's a
better solution to the one I have used in the past like C-wrapping and
suiding specific operations.