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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?
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On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0700, Chris Telting wrote:

> I've googled for over an hour.
> 
> I'm not looking to get into a discussion on security or previous bugs 
> that are currently fixed.  Suid in and of itself is a security issue.  
> But if you are using suid it it should work; I don't want to use a 
> kludge and I don't want to use sudo.  I'm hoping it's a setting that is 
> just disabled by default.

My understanding is that in general the system does not allow SUID
on scripts.   The way I have gotten around that (a long time ago)
was to create a small binary that exec's the script and making
the binary SUID.

Security cautions apply.

////jerry


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