Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:28:35 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Paul Lathrop <plathrop@mqtweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suid shell script Message-ID: <20030311052835.GA65690@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <391E822F-537B-11D7-9C72-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com> References: <391E822F-537B-11D7-9C72-000393BF3DE2@mqtweb.com>
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:37:53PM -0500, Paul Lathrop wrote:
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> I must admit I feel silly having to ask, but I've been banging my head
> against this for a couple days now and I am completely stumped.
>
> I just recently switched from Slackware Linux 8.0 to FreeBSD. There are
> a couple of scripts I use for my own convenience that I ran setuid root
> on my Linux box. All that I had to do was make sure the scripts were
> owned by root, and then do a chmod 4711 on them to make it work in
> Linux. I just set up a script on FreeBSD - the first time I've actually
> done it since I switched. I followed the same procedure, but when I run
> the script as a normal user, it does not run with elevated priveleges.
Dunno about Linux, but every other modern UNIX out there doesn't allow
setuid scripts.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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