From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 14:19:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA01366 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:19:49 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA01358 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 14:19:45 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.8/jtpda-5.0) with SMTP id XAA12768 ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 23:20:00 +0100 Received: by blaise.ibp.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15377; Wed, 4 Jan 95 23:20:11 +0100 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) Message-Id: <9501042220.AA15377@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: New adduser script To: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 23:20:11 +0100 (MET) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jan 3, 95 03:30:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 663 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > How would you configure an adduser script to be run by a group of > non-root users? Flagging it setuid doesn't seem to work... It will work if you flag it setuid AND use suidperl instead of perl. My script should be setuid-able and I hope secure but I would not recommend that. > BTW, what's the difference between /usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/suidperl? suidperl makes more checks about security and is specialy designed for suid scripts. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Thu Dec 29 20:28:18 1994 roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA ctm#235