Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:42:50 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> To: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Root privileges without root Message-ID: <35E5706A.DFEA227C@graphnet.com> References: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com> <19980827011001.A17427@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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> > Is there any way for me to give my script root privileges > > just for the time that it does pw? Or is there _any_ other way > > around this? > > Make a suid binary that does whatever you want for that time, and make > sure only the web server, and not any of your users, can execute it? OK, I'd love to try it... but I don't know what suid is, either. The book does not have an index entry for it, there is no man page, and a search of the faq/handbook returned nothing I understood. I know I must be missing it, can someone tell me where this is documented? Thanks, Roman -- Roman Katsnelson <-- Unix/NT Sys.Admin. Graphnet, Inc. <-- HQ at Teaneck romank@graphnet.com <-- not scared of spammers! http://www.wait.org <-- and in the mean time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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