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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:09:25 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Paredes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez_Mart=EDn?= A. <mparedes@telmex.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The set-user-ID-on-execution
Message-ID:  <20040804090925.0868e1e3.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <E3F56D7842656F4484C5668BC4D7F298042C18@is~tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com>
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Paredes S=E1nchez Mart=EDn A. <mparedes@telmex.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi:
>=20
> I made a script (for tcsh shell) which add a printer to the system
> (made directories, files, security and made some validations) but
> need root access to accomplish this task.
>=20
> my solution was to setuid the scripts been root
>=20
> # chown root:admin-hmo *.tcsh
> # chmod u=3Dswrx,g=3Drx,o=3D *.tcsh
> # ls -l
> total 4
> -rwsr-x---  1 root  admin-hmo  2024 Aug  3 04:07 impresora.tcsh
> -rwsr-x---  1 root  admin-hmo   275 Jul 30 02:26 seguridad.tcsh
>=20
> The first line of the script is #!/bin/tcsh -fb
>=20
> But when I run the script been other user I had problem with
> the permissions
>=20
> > impresora.tcsh oc81p8707 p1ct203 psct203 raw
> mkdir: /var/spool/lpd/oc81p8707: Permission denied
> touch: /var/spool/lpd/oc81p8707/filter-errors: No such file or directory
> touch: /var/spool/lpd/oc81p8707/accounting-file: No such file or
> directory
> /var/spool/lpd/oc81p8707/minfree: No such file or directory.
>=20
> did I miss something?

Yes.  Scripts can't utilize setuid/setgid.

You can rewrite the script in perl and use the setuid perl interpreter
(which is basically a workaround for this) or install sudo and give the
script the ability to call sudo before executing commands that require
elevated priviledges.

--=20
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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