From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 07:36:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18578 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18570 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA09024 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:35:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35E5706A.DFEA227C@graphnet.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:42:50 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "q's" Subject: Re: Root privileges without root References: <35E47654.E2BE73F5@graphnet.com> <19980827011001.A17427@rucus.ru.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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