From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 11:55:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02989 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dcs.state.ar.us (dcs.state.ar.us [170.94.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02980 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by dcs.state.ar.us with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA020371477; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:57:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:57:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Tim Stoddard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: suid question Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a need to allow someone the ability to reload a daemon. I have tried to write a script with the suid id bit set and owner set to root, but the script is always executed with the uid of the person who executed it instead of root. I am at a loss as to what else would need to be set. Thanks in advance, Tim Stoddard