From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 14:19:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65BB37B400 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:19:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1565C43E4A for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6VLHC111376; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:17:13 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:17:12 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> X-X-Sender: <fgleiser@localhost> To: Phil Gates <p_gates@fuse.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: write a script to get root permission In-Reply-To: <020e01c238d6$41ce6f80$5d7e880a@zoomtown.com> Message-ID: <20020731181516.C6656-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, 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. You cant make a suid script. The kernel ignores the suid bit in scripts because it is a huge security hole. If you need to grant partial root privilleges to a user, use sudo. Fer > > Thanks > > Phil > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message