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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net>
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Subject: Re: Accessing as root 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:31:03 GMT."
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:31:03 GMT, Rasputin wrote:

> > You need to make your script setuid root (see chmod(1)).
> 
> Can you do that on FreeBSD? Most moderm UNIXes don't allow suid scripts.

Weird, could have sworn this used to work.

Sorry,
Sheldon.

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