Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:48:22 -0800 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on su use Message-ID: <20021030184822.GY197@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <20021030131610.A32093@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20021030131610.A32093@skytrackercanada.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> (10.30.2002 @ 1016 PST): David Banning said, in 0.4K: << > I am attempting to create a simple user shell executable which will > execute a root command. > > Executing; > > su root killall squid > > requests root's password, and then issues a; > > killall: /usr/bin/killall: cannot execute binary file > > while killall executes by root no problem. > Any idea what's going on here? >> end of "question on su use" from David Banning << you can try su root -c killall squid or you can use sudo ::) - -Adam - -- Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx adamw@FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9wCl2o8KM2ULHQ/0RAnLIAJ9mAyb7Zyc0tFdKrga/PFjI1d18gwCg1/5Z LYVvkjUIGlOAHX/YiNWGK6U= =edqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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