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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:43:09 +0300
From:      "Nickolay A.Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: Accessing as root
Message-ID:  <150428298971.20011211154309@internethelp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <40735.1008073801@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
References:  <40735.1008073801@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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Hello Sheldon,

Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 3:30:01 PM, you wrote:



SH> 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.

SH> Weird, could have sworn this used to work.

SH> Sorry,
SH> Sheldon.

You could run suid perl scripts using suidperl from ports.
But I could not find such tools for shell or awk scripts, when I had similiar
problem.

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