From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu May  2 13:47:01 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA24416
          for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:47:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24409
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA02327; Thu, 2 May 1996 13:46:29 -0700
From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
Message-Id: <199605022046.NAA02327@mistery.mcafee.com>
Subject: Re: Groups ; Setuid
To: babbleon@mercury.interpath.com (Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account)
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 13:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605020519.BAA12169@mercury.interpath.com> from "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" at May 2, 96 01:19:34 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> 
> 
> Ok, I first used BSD way back in 1981, but I've been wandering in the
> land of the lost (sys5-ish systems) for many years now, and I don't
> quite "get it" about permissions and BSD, so . . .
> 
> 
>   1. I want to be able to su to root from my ID, but did not originally
	....

	man su ; vi /etc/groups
		
> 
>   2. I want to be able to setuid a "script" to root and have it jolly well
	....

	Options: get sudo, man suidperl, write a C wrapper (about 10 lines
				which just does a system() to call your script)

	(note: the last one isn't anything like secure -- re: the others --
	you mileage may vary)

> 
>      Sure, it's a security risk, but this is a home system; it just doesn't
>      need to be *that* secure.  Or is there a better way to do this sort 
>      of thing?
> 
> -- 
> Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On.
> 
> "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other
> account's .sig files."      http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
> 

Jim Dennis,
System Administrator,
McAfee Associates