Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:56:06 +0000 From: Alex Drummond <alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write a script to get root permission Message-ID: <200208012156.06758.alex@abingdon74.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <020e01c238d6$41ce6f80$5d7e880a@zoomtown.com> References: <020e01c238d6$41ce6f80$5d7e880a@zoomtown.com>
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 9:07 pm, Phil Gates wrote:
> Thanks everybody on ftp only login all your suggestions worked. I have
> another problem and I know . The person that I am working for want me to
> write a script in ksh to do some root commands and thenexit. Is there a
> way to get root permission in a script.
>
> Thanks
>
> Phil
You have to make the script setuid root. i.e.
chown root scriptfile
chmod u+sx scriptfile
Then the script will run as root (of course you have to run the commands above
as root). Writing a setuid shell script is a potential security risk, of
course.
This probably isn't the best place for this kind of general UNIX question, you
might get better responses somewhere like the linuxquestions.org forums.
Alex
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