Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:38:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: zzerver@hotmail.com (ZZerver ZZserver) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root access to a custom .sh defined as shell; Message-ID: <200402122038.i1CKc1U18692@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F67x4xVGGJQeCH0000e893@hotmail.com> from "ZZerver ZZserver" at Feb 12, 2004 08:29:24 PM
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> > Am running a free server of shells in freeBSD 4.9, the amount of > >people solicitading new accounts has been too much that i can not > >handle them by me, so i wrote this .sh program to do it for me, my > >code its secure as much i can tell, i understand the risk involve and > >decide to do it anyways, soo i create a new group call 'shellauto', > >add new user 'newuser' promote to 'wheel', then i modify etc/shells to > >accept my new shell, so when some body logs to my server as 'newuser' > >the server run my .sh (freeshell.sh), everything works goodl but my > >question is ...how can i give my script root previlages ? so can > >addusers without me? also if there is a way to type a command directly > >to shell (bash) so i can define quotas of 1mb, and background procees > >to 3?? that way i can include those commands to my freeshell.sh > >...thanks You are not supposed to be able to make a shell script have SUID root ability. So, you either need to write a wrapper in C that calls it or just rewrite the whole thing in C. ////jerry
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